内容简介
Born to an unfortunate heritage, orphaned, unsympathetically raised, and then abandoned, Edgar Allan Poe struggled for greatness in an adverse social and economic climate -- a setting not improved by his fiery temperament and caustic criticism of others. Poe's melancholy brilliance, his passionate lyricism, and his tormented soul would make him one of the most widely read and original writers in American literature. Here, in one volume, are his classic short works: masterpieces of horror, terror, humor, and adventure -- and the finest lyric and narrative poetry of this ill-fated genius whose influence on both prose and verse continues to this day.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Great Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe contains the original Pocket Books introduction, first published in 1951, along with an updated selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further readings.
作者简介
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
埃德加·爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe),十九世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家,在世时曾长期担任报刊编辑工作。其作品在任何时代都有着独一无二的风格。语言精致,形式优美,内容多样,他的小说被公认为短篇哥特小说的巅峰。他是侦探小说的鼻祖,科幻小说的先驱,也是恐怖小说大师。象征主义先行者。此外,爱伦·坡还是一个唯美主义者。
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 爱伦坡最佳短篇小说和诗歌集 [平装] [NA--NA] 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 爱伦坡最佳短篇小说和诗歌集 [平装] [NA--NA] 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2025
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爱伦坡果真是诡异风格啊,读起来像是神经病人自述
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非常好,大师经典之作,值得一读
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“媒体通常只会制造骇人听闻的话题,而不想挖掘事情的真相,即使媒体有时挖掘出了真相,那也只不过搭了炒作话题的顺风车罢了,纯属偶然,不必把媒体看得 太崇高。”
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在我不多也不少的读书记忆中,哥特式的风格在很遥远的初中时代是读过造就了知名的德古拉伯爵的那一本《德拉库拉》,当时可能由于自己水平的限制,对这种风格并不以为然,甚至很是失望,小说既没有相应电影作品所带来的那一种来自”恐怖”的刺激,而且文字上与其说是”恐怖”不如说是一种欲说还休的”诡异”,也就是说你对他的感觉不是急切知道结果,又怕知道结果的那种不间断推理的预期,而是一种不停的理解作者在说什么的困惑,文字的重点并不在于”逻辑”,而更多的在于营造”气氛”,当时我并不知道这这种风格就是哥特式(我当时对这种风格的认识仅局限于建筑,比如巴黎圣母院,圣彼得大教堂),只是觉得这种小说过于的阴暗和完全唯心主义似的臆想和癫狂,让人深感不舒服。
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在这些文字的描述中还时常冒出一些让我惊叹的哲学警句,很多时候我都即时的抄录到我的twitter上以作备忘 ,比如下面这些。
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挺不错的
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萧伯纳说过: “美国出了两个伟大的作家——爱伦·坡和马克·吐温。”
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或对某一个问题似有所闻的时候,打开书一看,你就会发现早已有人对这个问题做了充分的论述,
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