Erzählungen

by Edgar Allan Poe

Vorwort
Edgar Allan Poe, Sein Leben und seine Werke
(Charles Baudelaire)
Erzählungen
Metzengerstein (Metzengerstein — 1832)
Eine Geschichte aus Jerusalem (A Tale of Jerusalem — 1832)
Stelldichein (The Assignation 1834)
Berenice (Berenice — 1835)
Morella (Morella 1835)
König Pest — Eine nicht unallegorische Geschichte (King Pest — 1835)
Ligeia (Ligeia— 1838)
Das System des Doktor Teer und Professor Feder (The System
of Dr. Theer and Prof. Fether— 1845)
Eleonora (Eleonora — 1842)
Das ovale Porträt (The Oval Portrait 1842)
Die Maske des roten Todes (The Masque of the Red Death — 1842)
Die Augengläser (The Spectacles 1844)
Du bist der Mann (Thou Art the Man — 1844)
Die Sphinx (The Sphinx — 1846)
Hopp-Frosch (Hop-Frog — 1849)
Von Kempelens Erfindung (Von Kempelen and His Discovery — 1849)
Phantastische Fahrten
Das Manuskript in der Flasche (MS Found in a Bottle — 1833)
Die unvergleichlichen Abenteuer eines gewissen Hans Pfaall
(The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall — 1835)
Ein Sturz in den Malstrom (A Descent into the Maelström 1841)
Die längliche Kiste (The Oblong Box — 1844)
Der Elch (Morning on the Wissahiccon — 1844)
Die Domäne von Arnheim (The Domain of Arnheim — 1847)
Landors Landhaus (Landor's Cottage — 1849)
Der Geist des Bösen
Der Untergang des Hauses Usher
(The Fall of the House of Usher- 1839)
William Wllson (William Wilson -1939/40)
Der Mann in der Menge (The Man of the Crowd — 1840)
Die Grube und das Pendel (The Pit and the Pendulum — 1843)
Das verräterische Herz (The Tell-Tale Heart 1843)
Der schwarze Kater (The Black Cat— 1843)
Eine Erzählung aus den rauhen Bergen (A Tale of the
Ragged Mountains 1844)
Das vorzeitige Begräbnis (The Premature Burial — 1844)
Mesmerische Offenbarung (Mesmeric Revelation 1844)
Der Kobold der Perversion (The Imp of the Perverse — 1845)
Die Tatsachen im Falle Valdemar (The Facts in the Case of
M. Valdemar- 1845)
Das Faß Amontillado (The Cask of Amontillado — 1846)
Detektivgeschichten
Die Morde in der Rue Morgue (The Murders in the
Rue Morgue — 1841)
Das Geheimnis um Marie Rogéts Tod (The Mystery
of Marie 1842/43)
Der Goldkäfer (The Gold Bug- 1843)
Der entwendete Brief (The Purloines Letter— 1845)
Gedichte und Prosa
Schatten Eine Parabel (Shadow — 1835)
Schweigen — Eine Fabel (Silence — 1837)
Gedichte
Tamerlane (Tamerlane — 1827)
Der Rabe (The Raven- 1845)
Ulalume (Ulalume — 1847)
Annabel Lee (Annabel Lee — 1849)

640 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1985

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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