Nouvelle écrite en 1844, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre très importante a été volée. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler le coupable.

La lettre volée

Progressez en anglais grâce à... : Edgar Poe et Auguste Dupin ; le Mystère de Marie Roget

Notes de lectures et analyses sur l'art et la fiction, la philosophie, la morale, les sciences, le langage, où l'auteur passe de la louange à l'insulte, de la théorie littéraire au sarcasme, de l'aveu à la provocation. Il y aborde aussi les concepts fondamentaux de sa théorie littéraire, les progrès de la science et le rêve d'une vie ailleurs que sur la Terre, dans un monde plein d'harmonie.

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com­pan­ion vol­ume to Poe’s better-​known Tales of Mys­tery and Imag­i­na­tion, con­tains a selec­tion of his very best sto­ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig­i­nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. Many of the sto­ries deal with the famil­iar Poe themes of mur­der, obses­sion and pas­sion, but this vol­ume also con­tains many often-​overlooked tales of the fan­tas­tic and comic, par­o­dies and hoaxes, includ­ing ‘The Unpar­al­leled Adven­ture of Hans Pfaall’, ‘Mes­meric Rev­e­la­tion’, ‘Hop-​Frog’, and & ‘The Imp of the Perverse’.The book includes a sec­tion in colour, and con­tains use­ful essays from notable schol­ars: an intro­duc­tion by Kevin J. Hayes and Ben­jamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.engag­ing biog­ra­phy of Edgar Allen Poethe com­plete text in a mod­ern, read­able typefacean illus­trated pub­lish­ing his­tory of the talestime­line in colour of Poe’s worldcolour map of Poe’s America

Histoires extraordinaires/Histoires grotesques et sérieuses

Serge Djen nous conte le chat noir, le coeur révélateur et le portrait ovale : trois histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Allan Poe où rôdent la cruauté et la mort. Sa voix nous envoûte pour mieux nous révéler des caractères dominés par l'obsession. Livre audio d'une durée de 54'. Le texte intégral a été traduit par Charles Baudelaire.
"Relativement à la très-étrange et pourtant très-familière histoire que je vais coucher par écrit, je n'attends ni ne sollicite la créance. Vraiment, je serais fou de m'y attendre dans un cas où mes sens eux-mêmes rejettent leur propre témoignage. Cependant, je ne suis pas fou, - et très-certainement je ne rêve pas. Mais demain je meurs, et aujourd'hui je voudrais décharger mon âme."

Le Chat Noir et autres histoires

Best of Edgar Allan Poe Meistererzählungen Band 28: Das verräterische Herz

Das verräterische Herz

Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery, and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.

Aventures D'arthur Gordon Pym De Nantucket

Best of Edgar Allan Poe Meistererzählungen Band 42: Die denkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Artur Gordon Pym. Der einzige Roman Edgar Allan Poes. Der Erzähler beschreibt darin das Leben des Arthur Gordon Pym von der vor der Nordostküste der USA liegenden Insel Nantucket. Pym suchte von Jugend an Abenteuer auf See, die teilweise ins Phantastische ausarten und die im Laufe der Jahre seine Einstellung zum Leben verändern. Der Roman ist das längste Prosawerk Poes und gilt als eine seiner rätselhaftesten Arbeiten.

Die denkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Artur Gordon Pym

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Best of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart,   The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the   Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat,   The Murders in the Rue Morgue" contains the Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe in   one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Is a short story told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the   reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is   carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and   hiding it under the floorboards. 
Fall of the House of Usher (1839) 
As in all of Poe's short stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher"   concentrates on a "single effect", in this case, the degeneration and decay   of the Usher house and family.
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year and is   about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has   insulted him. The narrative revolves around a person being buried alive-in   this case, by immurement.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The short story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish   Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story   describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective   at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses,   such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which   are aided by the supernatural. 
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) 
It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of   his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is carefully   calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it   under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in   the form of the sound - possibly hallucinatory - of the old man's heart still   beating under the floorboards.
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague   known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other   wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each   decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious   figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each   of the rooms.
The Black Cat (1843)
It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with   Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals   his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and   reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
It has been recognized as the first detective story. C. Auguste Dupin is a   man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.   Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was   spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) defined the genre of macabre   story-telling in the first half of the 19th century. Poe, known for   psychologically thrilling tales with morbid undertones, is generally   considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further   credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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