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Pub. Date
[2014], c1935
Language
English
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The classic horror film is based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Premature Burial." It tells of a brilliant and insane doctor who, jealous of a romantic rival, gives him a drug that induces a death-like state. The rival is then buried alive.
Pub. Date
[2006], c2000
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Gothic monochrome and recited in lively fashion by British actor Joss Ackland, Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story of premeditated evil comes alive in this engaging program. Supplementing the dramatization, writer and film director Neil Jordan discusses the story's powerful imagery, particularly that of the eye and the heartbeat, along with Poe's lasting influence.
Pub. Date
[2006], c1998
Language
English
Description
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. So speaks Montresor in this faithful rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's chilling story of a murderous trap irresistibly baited with fine wine and flattery. Strong performances and outstanding cinematography make this classic program-an object of considerable critical acclaim at film festivals-an excellent introduction to the work of the master...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2000
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe was truest to his heart a poet. He has blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving imagery ever created. His phrasing and lyricism have forever changed the landscape of poetic verse. Includes "The Conqueror Worm," "To My Mother," "Israfel," "Annabel Lee," "The City in the Sea," "Eldorado," "To Helen," "The Haunted Palace," "Evening Star," and "The Raven."
Pub. Date
[2011], c2000
Language
English
Description
"Madness, but will you say that I am mad? Murder, perhaps you judge too soon. For when you hear my story, you will certainly understand why, very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man." True to the words of master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe, this stunning adaptation brings to life what is perhaps Poe's best-known short story. Murder, madness, and betrayal from within become entangled in this fascinating study of a twisted...
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe, America's master of the macabre, is famed for such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. But the story of his life was more bizarre than any of the tales he told. This episode of Biography sheds light on a man greatly blessed and supremely cursed: blessed with immortal genius and cursed by a life of lost loves and shattered hopes.
29) Mrs. Poe
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened...
33) Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
Credited as the father of the modern horror story and the first detective novel, Poe still inspires legions of fans to this day.
34) Famous authors
Series
Language
English
Description
This introduction to the life and literature of Oscar Wilde from the Famous Authors series begins by introducing Wilde's passionately political, literary, and flamboyant parents and nineteenth century Dublin, the earliest and strongest influences on the writer. Wilde went on to study classics at Oxford and develop his talents. The film discusses Walter Pater's large influence on Wilde's philosophy, most importantly his idea that everything beautiful...
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