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The complete Edgar Allan Poe tales. Cover Image Book Book

The complete Edgar Allan Poe tales.

Summary:

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernal realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In A Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are also here, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.

Record details

  • ISBN: 051745372X
  • ISBN: 9780517453728
  • Physical Description: xii, 704 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Chatham River Press : ©1981.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
MS. found in a bottle -- Berenice -- Morella -- Some passages in the life of a lion (Lionizing) -- The unparalleled adventures of One Hnas Pfaall -- The assignation (The visionary) -- Bon-Bon -- Shadow: A parable -- Loss of breath: A tale neither in nor out of "Blackwood" -- King Pest: A tale containing an allegory -- Metzengerstein -- Four beasts in one; The Homo-Cameleopard -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a blackwood article -- A predicament: the scythe of time -- Silence: a fable -- The journal of Julius Rodman -- The devil in the belfry -- The man that was used up -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- The business man -- The man in the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into the Maelstrom -- The island of the Fay -- The colloquy of Monos and Una __ Never bet the devil your head -- Three Sundays a week -- Eleonora -- The oval portrait -- The masque of the red death -- The mystery of Marie Roget -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains -- The spectacles -- The balloon-hoax -- Mesmeric revelation -- The premature burial -- The oblong box -- The angel of the odd -- Thou art the man -- The purloined letter -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Some words with a mummy -- The power of words -- The imp of the perverse -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The system of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether -- The sphinx -- The case of Amontillado -- The domain of Arnheim -- Mellonta Tauta -- Hop-frog -- X-ing a paragrab -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Landor's cottage -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Subject: Death
Insanity
Genre: Death Wish
Criminal Mind
Premature Burial
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Short Stories
Horror tales, American.

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Summary: The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernal realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In A Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are also here, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.

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