The Fall of the House of Usher (novel) - Ashake no Houka

...In 1933, his book Notes from a Bottle won a prize in a contest, opening up his career as a writer and magazine editor. Poe subsequently edited magazines in Richmond, New York, and Philadelphia, and wrote numerous essays and book reviews. He also published his only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), a collection of short stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), and other masterpieces rich in fantasy, such as Ligeia (1838), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), and In the Maelstrom (1841). He also published a series of detective stories, including The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), The Mysteries of Marie Rogêt (1842), and The Purloined Letter (1844), featuring the detective Dupin, as well as nearly 70 science fiction stories, including The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Fahr (1835) and The Melonta Tauta (1849). Poe was a writer of horror and fantasy novels who gave vivid form to the inner fears and subconsciousness lurking in the human heart, a sharp and sometimes harsh critic, and the originator of the detective novel and science fiction genres that are so popular today.

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…33年，《瓶の中から出た手記》が懸賞に当選し，作家としての，また雑誌編集者としての道が開けた。　その後ポーはリッチモンド，ニューヨーク，フィラデルフィアの各地で雑誌の編集にたずさわり，数多くの評論や書評を書くかたわら，唯一の長編小説《アーサー･ゴードン･ピムの物語》(1838)や短編集《グロテスクとアラベスクの物語》(1840)を出版し，《ライジーア》(1838)，《アッシャー家の崩壊》(1839)，《大渦にのまれて》(1841)などの幻想味豊かな名作，探偵デュパンが登場する《モルグ街の殺人》(1841)，《マリー･ロジェのなぞ》(1842)，《盗まれた手紙》(1844)などの一連の推理小説，《ハンス･ファールの無類の冒険》(1835)，《メロンタ･タウタ》(1849)などの空想科学小説を70編近く発表した。ポーは人間の心にひそむ内的恐怖や無意識にみごとな形態を与えた怪奇小説や幻想小説の書き手，明敏でときには辛辣な批評家，それに今日隆盛をきわめる推理小説やSFの元祖であった。…

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