Edgar Allan Poe

Extraordinary stories Edgar Allan Poe

The extraordinary narrations of the most universal writer of North American letters constitute a paradigm of originality and mastery in the development of the story in the 19th century. In this edition's selection, Poe explores the madness, death, pain, cruelty, the murderous instinct, the physical and moral disintegration, the loneliness, the isolation and the duplicity of human nature. In a display of mastery of the creation of atmospheres, the writer outlines the psychology of characters distressed by nightmares, fantasies and fears that undoubtedly prelude the contradictions of the contemporary human being.