❧  An Aerial View of the Earth

The first manned flight in a hot air balloon took place in Paris in 1873. Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927. In what was science fiction at the time, and a model of expository writing, Edgar Allan Poe gives a very imaginative description of an aerial view of the earth from space in [...]

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§ 500 · September 24, 2011 · Cosmology, Edgar Allan Poe · Comments Off · Tags:

❧  The Black Cat

The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe Page 2    Page 1 This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil—and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own—yes, even in this felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own—that the terror and horror [...]

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§ 281 · February 25, 2010 · Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories · Comments Off ·

❧  The Black Cat

The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not—and very surely do I [...]

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§ 275 · February 25, 2010 · Edgar Allan Poe, Literature: Full Read · Comments Off · Tags: , ,

❧  The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this [...]

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§ 214 · February 23, 2010 · Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories · Comments Off · Tags: ,

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