The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories,…
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September 5, 1992
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.
J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. His books on Poe include Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987), “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and the Abyss of Interpretation (1995), and several edited volumes including A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001), Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001; with Liliane Weissberg), and Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012; with Jerome McGann). His major contribution to American…
Hop-Frog
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Tie-in Edition)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
A Modern Detective
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Annotated Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe; Series Editor Guillermo del Toro
American 19th Century Literature
Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton
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