Ergebnis für "Edgar Allan Poe" in Historische Romane

Eine Kindheit in den Fünfzigern, in einer Stadt, nicht groß, nicht klein; ein bürgerlicher Haushalt, in dem viel Musik gemacht wird; der Vater ist Gefängnisdirektor. Der Krieg ist noch nicht lange her, und die Eltern versuchen, durch Hingabe an klassische Musik und Literatur nachzuholen, was sie ihre verlorenen Jahre nennen. Überall spürt der Junge Risse in dieser geordneten Welt. Gebannt verfolgt er die politischen Auseinandersetzungen, die seine älteren Brüder mit Vater und Mutter am Esstisch führen. Aber er bleibt Zuschauer. Immer häufiger flüchtet er sich in die Welt der Phantasie.

Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe By Tim Simpson He was America’s first true master of the macabre—yet his own life was a story more mysterious than any he ever wrote. From the shadowed streets of Richmond to the rain-slick alleys of Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe walks again in this sweeping historical novel that blurs the line between genius and madness, love and obsession, life and death.

Bir Kudüs Öyküsü kavimler tarihinin biraz gerçek ama daha çok fantastik ve alabildiğince etkileyici öyküsüdür... Hemen surlara gidelim, dedi Abel Phittim, Buzi Ben Levi'yle Ferisi Simeon'a, Temmuz ayının onuncu gününde, dünyanın üç bin dokuz yüz kırk bir senesinde. Hemen Benyamin kapısının yanındaki, Davud şehrindeki, sünnetsizler kampının karşısındaki surlara gidelim. Çünkü şimdi gün doğduğundan, bu dördüncü nöbetçinin son saati ve putperestler Pompey'in vaadini yerine getirmek üzere bizi kurbanlık kuzularla bekliyorlardır.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

Not often thought of as a romantic, Poe nonetheless captured the beauty of love in many of his works. In this collection, Poe offers his short poem, aptly titled, "Romance", followed by three short stories, "Morella", "Eleonora", and "Ligeia", ending with the poem, "Annabel Lee".

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL ● A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. "Fagin the Thief takes one of literature's greatest rogues and gives him a soul, a backstory...

Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heiress flirts with her inferiors. All the while, Poe's young schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening before he and his loved ones are destroyed. But the truth has its origins in the New World and the Old, in a bitter episode of corruption during the War of 1812.