Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846777004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The 'first detective' of fiction steps out 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe is widely considered to be the first true detective story; also in this volume are the author's two other detective fiction classics featuring the same central character-'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' & 'The Purloined Letter.' The French detective who features in all three is Chevalier Auguste Dupin, an amateur sleuth who puts himself in the position of the criminal and then uses logical deduction to discover how a crime was committed. This is an opportunity for lovers of classic crime and detective fiction to own and read these important and groundbreaking mysteries in a single volume, available in paperback or hardback with dust jacket for collectors.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Wordfire Press
ISBN: 9781680571011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Murder, mystery, and solving crime-the foundations of detective fiction. Featuring a foreword by bestselling author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, this volume from the Father of Detective Fiction contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter, stories featuring Poe's sentinel character, C. Auguste Dupin.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473377749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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This vintage book contains a fantastic collection of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, including 'Thou art the Man', 'The Black Cat', 'The Gold-Bug', 'The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget', 'The Purloined Letter', and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. These marvellous examples of Poe’s masterful fiction writing prowess are highly recommended for lovers of the detective genre, and would make for worthy additions to any collection. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. Most famous for his stories of mystery and horror, he was one of the first American short story writers, and is widely considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing "Bon-Bon” now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Gray Cadence
ISBN: 9780983360674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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"To speak of the detective story is to speak of Edgar Allan Poe, who invented the genre." - Jorge Luis Borges Before Sherlock Holmes there was C. Auguste Dupin, the brilliant Parisian detective whose unique powers of observation and deduction allowed him to solve the most mysterious of crimes. "The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together all three stories featuring Dupin: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter." In these pages lie the very origins of the detective story, a genre Poe not only invented but mastered. As Arthur Conan Doyle acknowledged, Poe "was father of the detective tale, and covered its limits so completely I fail to see how his followers can find ground to call their own."
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692553145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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DETECTIVE STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR WHO INVENTED THE GENRE -- EDGAR ALLAN POE. "It is because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much that I began to make suspense films." ALFRED HITCHCOCK "Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE "Mr. Poe has that indescribable something that men have agreed to call genius." JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL "Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic..." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781402773259
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A collection of twenty-four illustrated stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
ISBN: 1782275630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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A beautiful gift edition of three macabre mysteries featuring the first and greatest of detectives, Auguste Dupin An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail - three mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris, and baffled the city's police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates - can he find the solution where so many others before him have failed? These three stories from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe are some of the most influential ever written, widely praised and credited with inventing the detective genre. This edition contains: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' and 'The Purloined Letter'.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442441011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled. Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The original tales have been ever so slightly dismembered -- but, of course, Poe understood dismemberment very well. And he would shriek in ghoulish delight at Gris Grimly's gruesomely delectable illustrations that adorn every page. So prepare yourself. And keep the lights on.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307781402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.
