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1) Edgar´s Life

2) Edgar´s horror

3) Edgar’s work

a) He was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston.

b) His life was mysterious and tragic as his poems and stories.

c) His parents were actors , his mother , who went to the United States in 1796 from England, was a very good actress ,on the hand, her father was a very bad actor.

d) His mother died soon , and he was taken by Mrs Frances Allan , the wife of John Allan a businessman Richmond, Virginia

e) In 1826 he studied in the University of Virginia, and ten years after he married with his cousin of thirty years old ,Virginia Clemm.

f)Died on 7 October, 1849

The author – Edgar Allan Poe

He was one of earliest creators of science fiction and famous for his tales of horror and considered the inventor of the modern detective story, short story and modernist poetry

He was a fair but very severe critic .He did not care if an author was famous or not .He wrote what he thought.

Later on I think everybody should read her essays and plays to order to reflexion about how was his style of write and think.

Also the writers should learn him so to as narrate of other form and see literary how a place of expression.

Edgar`s horror

In the stories of horror , Edgar analyzes the mentality of madmen with the care of psychologist or of a detective.His stories are not about the horrors that exist in the outside world, but the horrors that exist in our minds.

Talesa)The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)

b)The Black Cat (1843)

c)The Tell-Tale Heart, (1843)

d)The Gold-Bug (1843)

e)Hop-Frog (1849)

Poemsa)Al Aaraaf (1829)

b)The Bells posthumous (1849)

c)The Raven (1845)

Other worksa)The Balloon-Hoax(1844) – A journalistic b)The Philosophy of Composition(1846) – Essay c)Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay

The protagonist was a men kindly and gentle. He lived with his wife and his animals. He had a black cat appeled Pluto he was most loving with him. Until that he became a victim of alcohol, and he became moody, maltreated animals except to cat that had enough respect. Until a night when became home intoxicated , and cut a eye to Pluto because though that was avoiding the next morning he hanged him from a tree. In the night his house fired he lost all wealth. The day after he went to visit the ruins of her house and until one wall remained with a figure of a gigantic cat.

The black Cat (1843)

The Tell-Tale Heart

A man who is crazy, want to kill an old man just to have one eye blue veiled and that scares him. So during all a week he men goes house him to order to investigate. Afterwards of a week, he men entry in his room and killed the old man .In the same night , he jointed cut his body. The police became house and did not find evidences, then he killer said that he did.

(1843)

Poems

The Raven (1845)

Is his poems most famous.The poem talk about mysterious visit of a Raven to house of lover sad that have been identificated how a student he cries the loss of her love Leonore. The Raven help lover with her suffering ,repeating constantly nevermore.

1)The book of Edgar Allan Poe “America horror” Three terrifying tales.

2) www.wikipedia.org Edgar Allan Poe

3) www.google.es Images