The Tell-Tale Heart 举一反三般的心 

基本信息

出版社: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc; 1 (1998年12月31日)

外文书名: 泄密的心和其他作品

丛书名: Bantam Classics

简装: 419页

语种： 英语

开本: 32开

ISBN: 0553212281

条形码: 9780553212280

商品尺寸: 10.6 x 2 x 17.4 cm

商品重量: 204 g

ASIN: 0553212281

内容简介

A selection of Poe's poetry and sixteen of his best-known tales, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"The Fall of the House of Usher,"The Black Cat," and "The Pit and the Pendulum.".

作者简介

In his short, troubled life Edgar Allan Poe originated the mystery story, brought new psychological depth to the tale of horror, and made inimitable contributions to Romantic poetry and literary criticism. Born in Boston in 1809 to itinerant actors, Poe was orphaned as an infant and sent to live with a Richmond merchant, John Allan. Allan sent him to the University of Virginia in 1826, but Poe withdrew because of gambling debts. In 1830, with his first book of poems already published, he entered West Point but was dishonorably discharged the next year. In 1835 Poe was chosen editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe was already established as an author when, in 1845, the publication of "The Raven" made him famous. He began to lecture, engaged in a celebrated feud with Longfellow, and became sole proprietor of his own magazine, Broadway Journal. But in 1846 the magazine went bankrupt, and in 1847, after years of suffering, Poe's wife died of consumption. His ill health and drinking worsened. In October 1849 he was found semiconscious outside a polling place in Baltimore; a few days later he died without regaining consciousness. 

Ignored for the most part by his countrymen, he was idolized by the French Symbolists, who thought of him as the first modern poet and helped to win him the recognition that is now his.