Pierre Bon-Bon este un filosof de veac XIX la care Poe, caracterizându-l, face aluzie prin "prea puţini sunt oamenii înzestraţi cu o nemaipomenită adâncime de gândire şi care să nu aibă în acelaşi timp înclinare spre băutură". Apoi, Poe face o reflecţie monumentală: "Şi dacă adâncimea de gândire e doar pricinuită şi stimulată de această înclinare, sau mai degrabă dovedită prin ea, iată un lucru gingaş şi greu de hotărât". The three Dupin stories helped to inspire detective fiction, using suspense and convoluted mystery to tantalize and challenge the reader. He may not have been as influential or innovative as Wilkie Collins, but his contribution still stands.

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I'm rating it two stars because overall I was underwhelmed, and the other option would be to not rate it at all—how do you rate someone's life's work? You can't. So I'll write down my thoughts on the four sections the book is divided in: He is credited with writing the first detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The same main character recurs in The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter, which were just okay. I've never liked the genre, and while I can appreciate it as the pioneering work that it is, those kind of tales are absolutely not my cup of tea. Poe pursues the counter-intuitive in “The Purloined Letter”, the facts of which Dupin describes as “simple and odd”, as well as a mystery that is “a little too plain, a little too self-evident”. He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.”

Some Words with a Mummy” reprises “The Thousand-And-Second Tale”, only the mummy compares the current world unfavourably with his own world thousands of years before. Thou Art the Man (1844) is an early experiment in what became known as "detective fiction." It is however not nearly as successful as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", possibly because the standpoint taken is that of the narrator seeking to expose the true murderer, so that the element of mystery is missing. It is a tale of a missing body, murder and betrayal; there is a decaying corpse, a case of vintage wine and a certain amount of sleight-of-hand. And somebody near the end pronounces the devastating words, "Thou art the Man!" Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe—all of his tales and poems in one convenient, easy-to-use volume at a fantastic price.

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Cea mai mare tortură cu putinţă -adevărata durere- nu este cea obştească, ci aceea de unul singur." The City in the Sea" - A poem about a sunken city ruled by Death, where the "ghouls" and "ghosts" wander. 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. Poe, în această "proză scurtă de dimensiuni considerabile", a dat dovadă de o uluitoare imaginaţie (stimulată poate de opiu?!). Scrierea se prezintă la început ca o povestire, iar mai apoi ca un microroman epistolar. I'm not sure how screwed up Mr. Poe really was as I have read that a lot of the criticisms of him were exaggerated. But screwed up or not the man could write. Fears and tears all are here for the reader.The final episode describes a murder which then reveals itself as a reflection in a mirror, saying, "In me didst thou exist - and in my death, see how utterly thou hast murdered thyself." Poe sent a copy of this story to Washington Irving, so the ending may well be an homage to a specific story of Irving's, in which the main character kills his double with his sword, only to see his own face behind the mask. An individual, active Table of Contents for each section accessible from the Kindle “go to” feature. The Spectacles” comically cautions the reader against love at first sight, especially when you have less than perfect vision. Scrisă în 1835, ea prezintă călătoria pe lună a unui anumit olandez numit Hans Phaall, iar -lucru extrem de curios!- prezintă informaţii care sunt demne de ştiinţa de astăzi. Pe mine unul m-a făcut să plutesc în balonul improvizat de Hans Phaall, m-a făcut să privesc Terra de la înălţime şi mi-a stimulat imaginaţia până dincolo de hotarele pe care credeam eu că le avea.

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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 basically liked all of the Tales of Mystery and Horror as you can see. Not all of them though. I didn't really like much else but some Poems. Either way, I'm just going to list the stories and poems I did enjoy. Although, I can't read my handwriting so now I have to go through the book. Well, I guess I could just look at the Contents at the front. Duh, if I can still read my handwriting. I don't know why I wrote it on freaking post-its! The story satirises both science and knowledge, poking fun at Egyptology on the way. The prevailing attitude of the time was that in the Western world humanity had reached the height of civilization and knowledge due to scientific and industrial revolutions. The mummy is able to prove them mistaken at every point, and that his society's inventions were far from being inferior, and frequently superior. The only progress which is unquestionable seems to be the invention of cough drops. A nice touch is that the mummy of the title is called "Allamistakeo".I love Poe's writing. He's a voice that edges at times on madness (The Fall of the House of Usher) and sometimes IS the voice of madness (The Tell Tail Heart). Unlike the madness we find in H.P.Lovecraft Poe writes the actual man's madness. The madness of revenge for what may be a real or imagined slight (The Cask of Amontillado) or the madness of obsession (The Premature Burial). Then again the madness may be in the situation or the act that the protagonist has to deal with. Here Poe originates the detective story (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) and his detective C. Auguste Dupin reappears later (in The Mystery of Marie Rogêt). Poe originated plots and plot points that were used and reused across the years (The Purloined Letter).

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In contrast, in “Von Kempelen and His Discovery”, the narrator detects that a paragraph in a newspaper detailing an invention is “apocryphal, principally upon its manner. It does not look true.” Ironically, what allows the narrator to come to this conclusion is an excess of particularity, which is not customary. Ill-fated and mysterious man! - bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in fancy I behold thee!” In “The Balloon-Hoax”, a hoax is achieved by describing a voyage in “the minutest particulars”. Once again, credibility and credulity are both achieved by particularity and detail. Cea mai sumbră scriere a lui Poe citită de mine până acum. Aici descrie, la persoana I, o crimă înfăptuită din instinct (ca şi cum ai vrea să spargi ceasornicul care ticăie). Finalul covărşitor este dat nu de mustrarea de conştiinţa (după cum ne-am obişnuit), ci tocmai de motivaţia crimei: reversul instinctului.The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" - A complete collection of Poe's poems, short stories, and essays, including "The Raven,""The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Philosophy of Composition."