Título: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Autor: Philip Van Doren Stern
Sinopse: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
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Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, de Philip Van Doren Stern, publicado pela editora The Viking Press Inc., em 2019 e com 628 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: The Viking Press Inc.
Páginas: 628
Ano: 2019
Edição: Revised
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0143039911
ISBN13: 9780143039914
