Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: Nick Number
Unabridged: 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Booktrack
Published: 04/06/2018
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."
Curioso relato centrado en los descubrimientos del inventor, Wolfgang von Kempelen, el cual murió poco antes del nacimiento de E. A. Poe. -------------------- Curious tale centred on the discoveries of the inventor, Wolfgang von Kempelen, who died shortly before the birth of E. A. Poe.......more
4 Stars. He's brilliant. He teases you. And then Poe confounds you. It's only 6 pages in 'The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe' from 1938, now with a 2011 introduction. The whole thing's a hoax of course, and science fiction to boot. It first came out in 'Flag of Our Union' in Apr......more
"This story, inspired by the 1848-49 Gold Rush in California, is a satire of the human lust for gold. In a letter to publisher Everet Augustus Duycknick, dated March 8, 1849 Poe wrote of the story: 'I meant it as a kind of 'exercise,' or experiment, in the plausible or verisimilar style. Of course,......more
The ending was interesting and matched a thought I've long held about the topic of alchemy but, like many of Poe's tales of this sort, it just rambled on far too much and wasn't entertaining in the least. Endless commentary and exposition about fictional matters do not an enjoyable story make the me......more