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Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" - A collection of Poe's short stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." I still remember a paper I wrote about in High school when I compared the differences between the original and the different Czech translations. Thus, Poe questions the role of reason and logic, not just in the process of detection, but in the creation of literature. Un al treilea lucru interesant -şi vizibil aici mai mult decât în oricare operă din serie- este dedublarea personalităţii lui Dupin şi punerea ei în postura criminalului, uzând de presupoziţia "eu cum aş fi reacţionat dacă tocmai aş fi săvârşit crima în cauza?".

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Misterul Mariei Roget" este net inferioară nuvelei "Crimele din Rue Morgue". Ambele îl au ca protagoniste pe legendarul Auguste Dupin, ambele se bazează pe deducţii logice, ambele "anchete" pleacă de la nimic concret şi ajung să fie explicate pe zece căi lăturalnice. Am fost în Ungaria medievală ("Metzengerstein"), pe lună ("Hans Phaall"), în Londra ("Regele ciumă"), Paris ("Crimele din Rue Morgue"), Norvegia ("O pogorâre în Maelstrom"), Italia ("Portretul oval") şi -în fine!- într-un ospiciu ("Sistemul doctorului Catran şi al profesorului Până"). Am râs, am rămas buimăcit, am trăit alături de personaje cu respiraţia luctuoasă. Am trecut -în fine!- prin zeci şi zeci de stări! In other words, bullshit (and lots of it) baffles brains. These purportedly encyclopaedic fictions “may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.” Edgar Allan Poe was known for his eloquent and poetic language, as well as his dark and mysterious themes. Here are some of his most famous quotes: I simply cannot let the Halloween season pass without at least once pulling down the tales of Edgar Allan Poe to cozy myself into the unsettling words of the gothic master. A man that became much like a mythological figure in his own right, Poe is best known for his tales of horror and poems like The Raven that have embedded themselves into the public consciousness as classics of spooky storytelling, though he also wrote tales of early science-fiction and practically invented the mold of the detective story with his character Dupin. His stories are feasts of tone that grab you by heart and shake you around. A man with many enemies amongst his contemporaries, though beloved in France by authors such as Charles Baudelaire who wrote in his journal that each morning he prayed to God and Poe, Poe lives on as an essential figure of US Literature that still delights and frightens readers today.

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Nowadays we would probably categorise this condition as sleep paralysis but it was a common fear of the time. Indeed it is one of Poe's favourite themes, as is the crypt. After the careful build-up of "true cases" we are presented with a personal experience. The narrator has lived a shallow life avoiding reality through his catalepsy. He has indulged in fantasies and visions because of his obsession with death, and many precautions were taken on his part to avoid being buried alive. The ending to this tale provides a nice twist. The Tell-Tale Heart was the story through which I have had the pleasure to meet Edgar Allan Poe some years ago, and it proved to become one of the best short stories I've ever read. Basically, it's a murderer's confession, creating the impression of a mad narrator and raising the reader's interest in his arguments he builds up as part of his defense. As the story continues, Poe cleverly turns his reader from a witness of the events into a judge of guilt and innocence, a narrative structure admired by me.

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With the creepy title and the horrifying premise - the narrator talking about a fishing trip with his two brothers which ended in chaos and turmoil years ago - I expected this story to be a little more frightening and engaging than it ultimately ended up to be. You will find Poe's classic style, though nothing extraordinary. Fără doar şi poate, scrierea a stârnit vâlvă în epocă, descriind amănunţit (şi ştiinţific) originea balonului. Astăzi n-ar mai avea efectul scontat In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - and airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the phantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. Yet her features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen.”Griswold then convinced Poe’s mother-in-law to sign over the rights to all of Poe’s work to him and published a collected works along with a biography of Poe that was full of outright lies. He invented stories that depicted Poe as a drunkard that preyed on women for sodomy and finacial ruin amonst numerous outlandish claims of immorality and insanity, which was then bolstered by publishing Poe’s personal letters filled with fictional insertions of his own design. People were like wow this scary stories guy was a dangerous loon and overtime this was said less in disgust and more in comical appreciation, because people seem to love the idea that the artists behind inventive art are drug addled and unhinged. So the joke was on Griswold because practically nobody knows who he is and his plans to defame Poe actually solidified him as an iconic household name. The Conqueror Worm" - A dark poem about the inevitability of death, personified as a "Conqueror Worm."

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In “Shadow - A Parable”, Poe recognises the incredibility of his tale (set in ancient Egypt) by anticipating that some readers will disbelieve it and some will doubt it instead. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." The Masque of the Red Death is no story about plot or characters. It's a story about atmosphere, about mood, about the symbolisms of colorful descriptions. That's what Poe was able to write perfectly, and that's what I can recommend this story for. E obişnuitul efect al coincidenţelor de acest fel, mintea se străduieşte să găsească un raport, o legătură de cauză şi efect şi, nefiind în stare să o facă, e izbită vremelnic de un fel de paralizie." Despre Poe nu mai are rost să se spună că e sumbru, însă această scriere depăşeşte limitele admise (stiu ca literatura nu are niciun fel de limite). Povestirea, cu nuanţă mitologică, are un iz din descrierea biblică (de factură iudaică):

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Morella, după biografia lui Poe, este ea însăşi una dintre iubirile lui (însă nu a confirmat nimeni ceea ce a scris el aici despre destinul ei). Povestirea descrie un proces de metempsihoză aparte: trecerea sufletului mamei (moartă la naşterea copilei) în sufletul fiicei ei. Poe descrie simţământul de melancolie pe care avea să-l aibă la vederea copilei, aducându-i aminte, prin procese freudiene, fizic şi psihic, de mama ei, de iubita naratorului: "nume a cărui simplă amintire îmi trimitea de obicei şuvoaie de sânge clocotitor din tâmple până-n inima? Ce diavol a izbucnit din străfundurile sufletului meu, când, sub bolţile întunecoase, am şoptit la urechile cuviosului preot numele - Morella?" Nici n-am apucat să mă acomodez cu introducerea că am rămas surprins de ideea mistico-filosofică din final. We continued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame. This collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems is perhaps the most definitive that you are going to come across and it is the reason that I am satisfied with owning just this collection and nothing more. If I come across a nice looking Poe collection, I may consider purchasing it. I also own a collection of some of his short stories in an illustrated format, but I am from the mold that is satisfied with having one of a particular work in good quality. For what it is worth, this collection of Poe's works is completely satisfactory!

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Căci tribunalul, călăuzindu-se după principiile generale privitoare la dovezi, principii recunoscute şi legiferate, este departe de a se lasă influenţat de cazurile mai deosebite." The Raven" - This is perhaps Poe's most well-known poem, telling the story of a man haunted by a raven who repeats the phrase "nevermore."Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are the tales told by the raven on the longest winter night long after midnight… Annabel Lee" - A hauntingly beautiful poem about the death of a young woman, believed to be inspired by Poe's wife Virginia. In contrast, in “A Descent into the Maelstrom”, Poe describes the loss of a ship and most of its crew (the narrator survives) in the abyss created by “a great whirlpool of the Maelstrom” in words ostensibly borrowed from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, to which “my imagination most readily assented”. I was aware that Poe specialised in mystery stories and that he had more or less invented the genre of detective fiction. What I didn’t know was that he also wrote relatively self-consciously in a metafictional sense. Not only did he invent a manner of writing, but he explained fairly insightfully what he was trying to accomplish, so that others could follow in his footsteps. Thou Art the Man” is a humorous tale of how the deceased victim manages to confront his murderer with his guilt.

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