Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Berenice. The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall. The Fall of the House of Usher and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Edgar Allan PoeThe Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 872664410X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
When Hans Pfaal’s creditors begin to circle, there is only one thing he can do. Construct a magnificent, science defying balloon and escape to the moon! Hans records the details of this voyage with vivid otherworldly description, and impressive scientific knowhow. This fascinating, hallucinatory adventure, is regarded as one of the first examples of the modern science fiction genre, inspiring works by later writers such as Jules Verne and H.G Wells. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is a titan of literature. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural and macabre, his body of work continues to resonate to this day. Poe is widely regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).
The Imaginary Voyages
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The first volume of a new edition of Poe, this includes three of Poe's longest prose works, three related by reason of journey motifs underlying their structures.
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645173860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature. From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” along with dozens of other short stories and poems.
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (Annotated)
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523471225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected-so entirely novel-so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions-as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781976933141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
* Book : The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall* Biography* BibliographyBy late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected so entirely novel so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.It appears that on the day of (I am not positive about the date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the great square of the Exchange in the well-conditioned city of Rotterdam. The day was warm unusually so for the season there was hardly a breath of air stirring; and the multitude were in no bad humor at being now and then besprinkled with friendly showers of momentary duration, that fell from large white masses of cloud which chequered in a fitful manner the blue vault of the firmament. Nevertheless, about noon, a slight but remarkable agitation became apparent in the assembly: the clattering of ten thousand tongues succeeded; and, in an instant afterward, ten thousand faces were upturned toward the heavens, ten thousand pipes descended simultaneously from the corners of ten thousand mouths, and a shout, which could be compared to nothing but the roaring of Niagara, resounded long, loudly, and furiously, through all the environs of Rotterdam.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan PoeTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Author: Edgar Allen PoePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537770666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
engaging biography of Edgar Allen Poethe complete text in a modern, readable typefacean illustrated publishing history of the talestimeline in colour of Poe's worldcolour map of Poe's America
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781979430906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall' (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe describes a voyage to the Moon in a hot-air balloon, in which Pfaall lives for five years on the Moon with lunarians and sends back a lunarian to earth.
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Poe
ISBN: 9781720239666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger, and intended by Poe to be a hoax.Poe planned to continue the hoax in further installments, but was upstaged by the famous Great Moon Hoax which started in the August 25, 1835 issue of the New York Sun daily newspaper. Poe later wrote that the flippant tone of the story made it easy for educated readers to see through the supposed hoax.Yan Dargent's illustration about The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall for Jules Verne's "Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres" (1864)The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey of a man named Hans Pfaall. The manuscript, which comprises the majority of the story, sets out in detail how Pfaall contrived to reach the moon by benefit of a revolutionary new balloon and a device which compresses the vacuum of space into breathable air. The journey takes him nineteen days, and the narrative includes descriptions of the Earth from space as well as the descent to its fiery, volcanic satellite. Pfaall withholds most of the information regarding the surface of the moon...