聚合作者:Allan Poe

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 崎岖山的故事

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 崎岖山的故事

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） A Tale of the Ragged Mountains is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe partially based on his experiences while he is a student at the University of Virginia. It was first published in Godey's Lady's Book in April 1844 and was included in Poe's short story collection Tales, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam in 1845. Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma. Because of ongoing problems with neuralgia, Bedloe has retained the exclusive services of 70-year-old physician Dr. Templeton, a devotee of Franz Mesmer and the doctrine of animal magnetism, also called "mesmerism".In the text of "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" readers can find scientific theories of Poe's day such as Mesmerism, and the story also connects with British imperial history as in the kiosk scene in the "Eastern-looking city."
Mesmeric Revelation 催眠启示录

Mesmeric Revelation 催眠启示录

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Mesmeric Revelation is a short story that widely considered as one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Mesmeric Revelation is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Edgar Allan Poe is highly recommended. Published by Quill Pen Classics and beautifully produced, Mesmeric Revelation would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. Edgar Allan Poe's psychological short story about a man referred to as "P" who convinces a dying man, Mr. Vankirk, to be hypnotized in order to see if he can find the true answers about God, the spiritual world and the universe.
The Angel of the Odd 离奇天使

The Angel of the Odd 离奇天使

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2020-12-08

（英文版） The Angel of the Odd is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Columbian Magazine in 1844.The story follows a narrator who reads a story about a man who died because a needle sucked down his throat accidentally. He rages at the gullibility of humanity for believing a hoax like such odd stories. Just then, a strange-looking creature made of a keg and wine bottles appears. The creature announces that he is the Angel of the Odd and that he is responsible for the strange events. The man, unconvinced, drives the angel away and takes an alcohol-induced nap. Two hours later when he wakes up, He has missed an appointment to renew his fire insurance. Ironically, his house has caught fire and he escapes out a window using a ladder the crowd below has provided for him. The story is especially interesting as it was published only six months after Poe's own great hoax, "The Balloon-Hoax", which many believed to be true despite its elements of the odd.
The Cask of Amontillado 一桶阿蒙蒂亚度酒/一桶白葡萄酒

The Cask of Amontillado 一桶阿蒙蒂亚度酒/一桶白葡萄酒

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-01-17

（英文版） The Cask of Amontillado (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story is set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, and is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive—in this case, by immurement (a form of imprisonment, in which a person is locked within an enclosed space and all possible exits turned into impassable walls). Revenge turns deadly when the narrator, Montressor, buries his friend, Fortunato, alive as the result of a perceived insult. Like "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado" is remarkable for being conveyed from the murderer's perspective.
The Devil in the Belfry 钟楼里的魔鬼/钟楼魔影

The Devil in the Belfry 钟楼里的魔鬼/钟楼魔影

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） The Devil in the Belfry is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839. In an isolated town Vondervotteimittiss (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down from a hill, goes into the belltower, brutally attacks the belfry-man and rings thirteen o'clock, to the horror of the town's inhabitants. The devil character can be seen as the bringer of chaos to an ordered system. In the context of the story, the devil is a troublemaker who destroys the serenity of tradition. However, in that Poe mocks the town's ridiculous traditions, it can be interpreted that the devil is a violent force of change, originality and creativity in an otherwise stagnant environment. Some have claimed the story to be political satire , but Poe's literary play, his pleasure at creating connections, seems more important than any single 'target' of satire."
The Gold-Bug 金甲虫

The Gold-Bug 金甲虫

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2020-12-22

（英文版） Edgar Allan is a pioneer of the short story genre. His stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. "The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843. The story, set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, is often compared with Poe's "tales of ratiocination" as an early form of detective fiction. Poe became aware of the public's interest in secret writing in 1840 and asked readers to challenge his skills as a code-breaker. He took advantage of the popularity of cryptography as he was writing "The Gold-Bug", and the success of the story centers on one such cryptogram. The plot follows William Legrand who was bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears that Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator, who agrees to visit his old friend. Legrand pulls the other two into an adventure after deciphering a secret message that will lead to a buried treasure.
The Masque of the Red Death 红死病的面具

The Masque of the Red Death 红死病的面具

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-01-07

（英文版） The Masque of the Red Death, originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his castellated abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. When Prospero confronts this stranger, he falls dead. The story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the disease of the "Red Death."
The Pit and the Pendulum 陷阱与钟摆

The Pit and the Pendulum 陷阱与钟摆

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is deemed guilty for an unnamed crime and put into a completely dark room. He passes out while trying to determine the size of the room. When he wakes up, he realizes there is a large, deep pit in the middle of the room. He loses consciousness again and awakens strapped on his back, unable to move more than his head. He soon realizes there is a large blade-like pendulum hanging above him, slowly getting closer to cutting through his chest. He finds a way to escape but the walls of his prison start to move and close in on him, pushing him closer and closer to falling into the pit. "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842.
The Tell-Tale Heart 告密的心/泄密的心

The Tell-Tale Heart 告密的心/泄密的心

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, A pioneer of the short story genre, whose stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who murders an old man with a "vulture eye". Murder is carefully designed, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. The narrator denies having any feelings of hatred or resentment for the victim. He also denies that he killed for greed. The specific motivation for murder, the relationship between narrator and old man, and other details are left unclear. It has been speculated that the old man is a father figure, the narrator's landlord, or that the narrator works for the old man as a servant, and that perhaps his "vulture-eye" represents some sort of veiled secret, or power.
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade 山鲁佐德的第一千零二个故事

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade 山鲁佐德的第一千零二个故事

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights. The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the King is uncertain — except in the case of the elephants carrying the world on the back of the turtle — that these mysteries are real, they are actual modern events that occurred in various places during, or before, Poe's lifetime. The story ends with the king in such disgust at the outlandish tales Scheherazade has just woven, that he has her executed the next day. Poe's begins with the Arabian Night fable and added one more night to 1001 to kill her at the end, when she told the story of the Sindbad his adventure with some sort of the modern invention…
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 怪诞蔓藤花纹的传说怪异故事集

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 怪诞蔓藤花纹的传说怪异故事集

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-01-07

（II） This work is a collection of previously-published short stories from the dark pen of Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. Poe wrote the now-famous quote defending himself from the criticism that his tales were part of "Germanism" In preface of this book, "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul". The collection was dedicated to Colonel William Drayton, anonymous author of The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists. The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe, wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of frightening the reader.[8] Even so, accurately defining Poe's intentions for the terms is difficult and subdividing his tales into one category or another is even more difficult. This work is a collection of previously-published short stories from the dark pen of Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
The Mystery of Marie Roget 玛丽·罗杰奇案

The Mystery of Marie Roget 玛丽·罗杰奇案

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-01-10

（英文版） Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" in 1842, it subtitled a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843.Detective C. Auguste Dupin uses his superior deductive skills to discover the identity of the murderer when the body of Marie Rogêt is found in the Seine River. "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" is based in part on the actual murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and is believed to be the first example of real-life crime used as a foundation for fictional narrative. Poe is pioneer of the short story genre, his stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".
The Purloined Letter 失窃的信

The Purloined Letter 失窃的信

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2021-02-17

（英文版） The Purloined Letter is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in The Gift for 1845 (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers. The unnamed narrator is discussing some of his most celebrated cases with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G—. The Prefect has a case he would like to discuss with Dupin. A letter has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed female by the unscrupulous Minister D—. It is said to contain compromising information. Danton was in the room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has been blackmailing his victim.
The Raven 乌鸦

The Raven 乌鸦

作者：Allan Poe

时间：2020-12-08

（英文版） The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition". The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout.

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