Edgar Allan Poe

Landor's Cottage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This vintage book contains Edgar Allen Poe¿s 1849 short story, ¿Landor's Cottage¿. Unlike the majority of Poe¿s work, this story is devoid of mystery, murder, and the macabre; instead, it is a detailed and masterful description of a lone cottage. A perfect example of Poe¿s famous descriptive prowess, ¿Landor's Cottage¿ will appeal to fans of his marvellous work, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector. 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 this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Seitenzahl: 24
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 46g
• ISBN-13: 9781447465843
• ISBN-10: 1447465849
• Artikelnr.: 39081486

Autorenporträt

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of the most significant and singular writers in the history of American letters. He was a poet, a pioneer of science fiction, the father of the detective story, and a master of the macabre whom Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison identified as a key to America's conflicted literary conscience. He died mysteriously in Baltimore at the age of forty, leaving behind a body of work that has influenced writers and artists such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Paul Klee, H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, and every crime writer to this day.