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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe Eureka (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) which he subtitled "A Prose Poem",... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1848, Eureka is Poe's book on how the universe was formed, how it functions, and what its future might be. Poe provides a physical, scientific explanation for the interconnectedness of all things--an idea at the heart of much of nineteenth-century... Read Full Overview

Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe - also known as - An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe ia a text Edgar Adapted from a lecture he had presented describing Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the true greats, a masterful poet... Read Full Overview

Un poema en prosa, a manera de ensayo, que le dedic Poe al cient fico Alexander von Humboldt y que nos muestra una faceta del escritor que nadie conoce, su pasi n por la astronom a, el cosmos y los grandes personajes relacionados a ello como Kepler o Newton. En el poema Eureka,... Read Full Overview

Se dice que Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) escribi EUREKA en 1847 casi de un tir n, como obedeciendo a un impulso incontenible. Cuando remata su labor, est convencido de haber producido una obra revolucionaria, superior a todas las conjeturas del pasado y del presente acerca del... Read Full Overview

Eureka is a classic American poem by Edgar Allan Poe. To the few who love me and whom I love--to those who feel rather than to those who think--to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities--I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller,... Read Full Overview

This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's non-fiction work, "Eureka: A Prose Poem". Often published with the subtitle An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe, it is a monograph on Poe's personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an author... Read Full Overview

Eureka (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) which he subtitled "A Prose Poem", though it has also been subtitled as "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe". Adapted from a lecture he had presented, Eureka describes Poe's... Read Full Overview

In this remarkable prose-poem, master storyteller Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) builds on known scientific truths to propound a universe governed by the immutable laws of attraction and repulsion, i.e., expansion and a return to unity. The irascible, vindicative God of the Old... Read Full Overview

Written only shortly before his death, Eureka is considered by many to be Poe's masterpiece and the key to unlocking his entire writings. Its significance, in both literary and scientific worlds, cannot be underestimated. Turning his immense intellect... Read Full Overview

In this remarkable work, master story-teller Edgar Allan Poe builds on known scientific truths to propound a universe governed by the immutable laws of attraction and repulsion, i.e., expansion and a return to unity. The irascible, vindictive God of the Old Testament and the... Read Full Overview

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative... Read Full Overview

"Eureca", um dos ltimos livros de Edgar Allan Poe, publicado em 1848, um ensaio cient fico sobre o universo em seu sentido material e espiritual, escrito na forma de um longo e extraordin rio poema em prosa. Conforme afirma o f sico Alexandre Cherman na Introdu o do livro:... Read Full Overview

Poe legt in Heureka, auf der Grundlage der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse seiner Zeit, seine Sicht vom Ursprung und Ziel des Universums dar. In seiner Darstellung verbindet Poe sowohl methaphysiche als auch naturwissenschaftliche Ans tze. Poe schildert in seiner Abhandlung seine... Read Full Overview

C'est avec une humilit non affect e, -c'est m me avec un sentiment d'effroi, -que j' cris la phrase d'ouverture de cet ouvrage; car de tous les sujets imaginables, celui que j'offre au lecteur est le plus solennel, le plus vaste, le plus difficile, le plus auguste. Quels termes... Read Full Overview

It is with humility really unassumed-it is with a sentiment even of awe-that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn-the most comprehensive-the most difficult-the most august. What terms shall I find... Read Full Overview

It is with humility really unassumed-it is with a sentiment even of awe-that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn-the most comprehensive-the most difficult-the most august. What terms shall I find... Read Full Overview

"But, even through evidence afforded by themselves against themselves, it is easy to convict these priori reasoners of the grossest unreason-it is easy to show the futility-the impalpability of their axioms in general. I have now lying before me"-it will be observed that we... Read Full Overview

It is with humility really unassumed-it is with a sentiment even of awe-that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn-the most comprehensive-the most difficult-the most august. What terms shall I find... Read Full Overview

It is with humility really unassumed-it is with a sentiment even of awe-that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn-the most comprehensive-the most difficult-the most august. What terms shall I find... Read Full Overview