home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ Van Gogh Starry Night - A History of Matter / Starry Night (1995)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso / pc / snmovs / shared.dxr / 01884_Bitmap_Poe, Edgar Allan (.png) < prev    next >
Bitmap Image  |  1995-11-13  |  71KB  |  330x210  |  1-bit (2 colors)
Labels: bulletin board | reckoner | sky | stairs
OCR: Poe Edgar Allan: (1809 1849) American writer f macabre short stories and poerms. Although Poe is best known for his supernatural themes, he alsa wrate satirical adventure nar- ratives in the 1820s wherein inventor-scientists use balloons to traverse the earth or reach the moon One story "The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall, in spired Jules Verne's From the Earthto the Moon and Around the Word in Eighzy Days After Van Gagh read "Hans Pfaall' he criticized it by late nineteenth -century standards judg ingit deficient in terms af scientific plausibility and seri- ausness Paes satirical objectives were lost on this avid reader f Jules Veme novels rarahre poems wrote moor Arouna World Eighy Gogh seni ousness