故事精选： Selected Tales
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作者： Edgar Allan Poe 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 1994-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 405印刷时间： 1994/08/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780140621167包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-49). Although he saw himself as primarily a poet, Poe's gothic tales of the grotesque and dark side of life have also been the subject of immense critical scrutiny; some critics have claimed him as the originator of the detective story, others as an early forerunner of the science fiction genre. However the critics divide, one undisputed fact is that Poe is a master storyteller.
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1809, the second son of travelling actors. There is no record of his father after 1810 and his mother, returning to the Southern circuit, died a year later from tuberculosis. Edgar, split up from his elder brother and younger sister, was taken into the household of a Virginian tobacco merchant, John Allan, whose name Poe adopted from 1824 onwards. He went to England with the Allan family in 1815 and while there attended a school in Stoke Newington. Poe's relationship with his foster father, uneasy at the best of times, was put under great strain when they returned to Richmond, Virginia, and in 1826 Allan refused to support Poe financially at Virginia University. Poe resorted to gambling in an attempt to try and support himself but was forced to leave college. After a violent quarrel with his foster father over his choice of career, Poe left Virginia altogether and went to Boston. While there he published Tamerlane and Other Poems anonymously and at his own expense but it was not well received. In 1827 Poe entered the US army under an assumed name and was posted to Sullivan Island; his time here gave him material for later stories such as 'The Gold Bug'. Poe was always very close to Mrs Allan and it was her dying wish that her husband and foster son be reconciled. For a brief time this worked and Poe entered the military academy at West Point in 1830, living on a small allowance from Allan. The truce did not last long and Poe deliberately got himself dishonourably discharged in 1831. He lived with his aunt, Mrs Clemms, in Baltimore,where he began to publish stories in magazines. When 'MS. Found in a Bottle' won a short-story competition one of the judges helped secure him a job as an editor on the SoutheRn Literary Messenger. During his time with the periodical he did much to increase its readership but was later sacked because of his excessive drinking. In 1836 Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemms. Much of his early work went unnoticed and it took until I84O before Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes. This included the famous story 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Plans for starting his own magazine did not lead to much and he continued to work as a magazine editor for various publications. His Tales and The Raven and Other Poems, published in 1845, did bring him some recognition but unfortunately it was not enough to sustain his family financially. Mrs Clemms and Poe's wife Virginia nearly starved to death one winter. After his wife's death in 1847 Poe became incieasingiy unstable and his dependence on drink and drugs increased. Depressed and erratic he attempted suicide in 1848 and tragically died in 1849, five days after being found in a delirious and semi-conscious condition in Baltimore. His reputation as a writer has grown steadily since his death and he has been much admired by the likes of R. L. Stevenson, Hart Crane and Baudelaire.
Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe brings together some of his best-known work, including 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Black Cat', 'Ligeia', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Masque of the Red Death'. Readers may also find the following books of interest: William Bittner, Poe: A Biography (1963); Benjamin Fisher, Poe at Work (1978); D. Hoffman, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1972); Geoffrey Rans, Edgar Allan Poe (1965); G. R. Thompson, Poe's Fictions (i973); I. M. Walker, Edgar Allan Poe: The Critical Heritage (1986).
内容简介
In 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', Poe invented the detective story;in "Von Kempelen and His Discovery' he pioneered modern science fiction; but he is best known for his tales of pure terror. These are the most chilling short stories from the undisputed master of mystery and suspense.
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目录
THE Duc DE L'OMELETTE
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
THE ASSIGNATION
LIGEIA
How TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
WILLIAM WILSON
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MOROUE
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
THE ISLAND OF THE FAY
THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA
THE OVAL PORTRAIT
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE TELL-TALE HEART
THE GOLD-BuG
THE BLACK CAT
THE PREMATUEE BURIAL
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE IMP oF THE PERVERSE
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM
VON KEMPELEN AND His DISCOVERY