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The Greatest Writers of All Time
Poe: Complete Tales And Poems: The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death...
This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication.
Some of the most notable
- The Black Cat
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Premature Burial
- The Purloined Letter
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Gold Bug
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- William Wilson
- The Haunted Palace
- The Raven
- Annabel Lee
- The Bells
- Spirits of the Dead
- The City in the Sea
- A Dream Within a Dream
- To Helen
- Lenore
- Ulalume
Some of the most notable
- The Black Cat
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Premature Burial
- The Purloined Letter
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Gold Bug
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- William Wilson
- The Haunted Palace
- The Raven
- Annabel Lee
- The Bells
- Spirits of the Dead
- The City in the Sea
- A Dream Within a Dream
- To Helen
- Lenore
- Ulalume
968 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2017
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,852 books28.8k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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July 7, 2020
If you love Edgar Allan Poe, then this book is an excellent addition to your library. I loved it from beginning to end! I thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
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