爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe)短篇小说合集

爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe,1809年1月19日—1849年10月7日)是美国的短篇小说先锋之一,被尊崇是美国浪漫主义运动要角之一,以悬疑及惊悚小说最负盛名。萧伯纳说过:美国出了两个伟大的作家——爱伦·坡和马克·吐温。

爱伦·坡是爱尔兰裔美国人,生于马萨诸塞州波士顿。幼时父亲出走,三岁时母亲逝世。坡由维吉尼亚州里奇蒙的约翰与法兰西丝·爱伦夫妇扶养长大,先后在杜伯夫人、伯兰斯比神父开办的学校就读,并回到里奇蒙的学校学习击剑、骑马、游泳、拉丁文和法文等等。在维吉尼亚大学短暂就读、从事军职后,爱伦·坡自费出版了首部作品《帖木尔》(1827年)诗集,就此展开了他的创作生涯。

爱伦·坡后将心力投入散文,并在接着数年间谋职于文学杂志与期刊,以他独特的风格成为小有名气的文学评论家。爱伦·坡因工作需求常来往巴尔的摩、费城、纽约等城市,而于1835年,26岁的他与13岁的表妹维吉尼亚·克莱姆在巴尔的摩完婚。1845年1月,爱伦·坡发表了诗作《乌鸦》,一夕成名。两年后,他的妻子死于结核病。爱伦·坡开始筹画以个人名义创办一份刊物《宾州报》(后改名为《铁笔报》),但到死前都没有完成此业。1849年10月7日,爱伦·坡逝于巴尔的摩。

A Descent Into the Maelstrom

A Predicament

A Tale of Jerusalem

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

A Voyage to the Moon

Berenice

Bon-Bon

Diddling

Eleonora

Four Beasts in One

Hop-Frog

How to Write a Blackwood Article

King Pest

Landor's Cottage

Ligeia

Lionizing

Loss of Breath

Mellonta Tauta

Mesmeric Revelation

Metzengerstein

Morella

Found in a Bottle

Mystification

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Old English Poetry

Philosophy of Furniture

Shadow

Silence -- a Fable

Some Words with a Mummy

The Angel of the Odd

The Assignation

The Balloon Hoax

The Black Cat

The Business Man

The Cask of Amontillado

The Devil in the Belfry

The Domain of Arnheim

The Duc de L'Omelette

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Gold-Bug

The Imp of the Perverse

The Island of the Fay

The Landscape Garden

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

The Man of the Crowd

The Man That Was Used Up

The Masque of the Red Death

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Oblong Box

The Oval Portrait

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Power of Words

The Premature Burial

The Purloined Letter

The Spectacles

The Sphinx

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade

Thou Art the Man

Three Sundays in a Week

Von Kempelen and his Discovery

Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling

William Wilson

X-ing a Paragrab