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Nato nel 1809 a Boston, negli Stati Uniti, da una coppia di attori, Edgar Poe rimase orfano di entrambi i genitori a soli due anni. Adottato da un mercante scozzese, il cui cognome era Allan, trascorse un'infanzia e una giovinezza molto infelici. Entrò in conflitto con il patrigno, che gli negò i mezzi per studiare all'università, e da quel contrasto prese origine l'abitudine di Poe di scrivere sempre abbreviato e puntato il suo secondo nome, Allan, impostogli dai genitori adottivi. Scoperta la sua vena letteraria, tentò il successo pubblicando libri di poesie, nei quali si rispecchiavano le molte insoddisfazioni della sua vita. Conobbe i primi successi con il racconto Manoscritto trovato in una bottiglia e con il romanzo Le avventure di Gordon Pym. Nel 1843 uscirono due racconti, Lo scarabeo d'oro e Gli assassini della via Morgue. Riconoscimenti maggiori, però, Poe non li ottenne negli Stati Uniti, ma in Europa. Morì nell'ottobre del 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe - Selected StoriesThe Black Cat. E-book. Formato PDF ebook
EBOOK   9788828372400

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected StoriesThe Black Cat. E-book. Formato PDF Edgar Allan Poe   -  Shadowpoet, 2023  - 

EDGAR ALLAN POE - SELECTED STORIESAn illustration for the story A Descent Into the Maelstrom by the author Edgar Allan PoeThe ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways ; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Joseph Glanville.    WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. For some minutes the old man seemed too much exhausted to speak. "Not long ago," said he at length, "and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons ; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man - or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of - and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul. You suppose me a very old man - but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves, so that I tremble at the least exertion, and am frightened at a shadow. Do you know I can scarcely look over this little cliff without getting giddy ?" The "little cliff," upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and slippery edge - this "little cliff" arose, a sheer unobstructed precipice of black shining rock, some fifteen or sixteen hundred feet from the world of crags beneath us. Nothing would have tempted me to within half a dozen yards of its brink. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clung to the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky - while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. It was long before I could reason myself into sufficient courage to sit up and look out into the distance. 

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