Edgar Allan Poe
61) Poetry and tales
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Library of America volume 19
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Preface (Tamerlane and other poems1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).
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Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in "The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these chilling and classic tales. Included in this collection is "The Fall of the House of Usher," the story of a man and his sister who suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness as their fragile mansion...
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Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems - among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" - reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.
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Library of America volume 20
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This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc. A valuable tool for anyone studying Poe and his work.
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El autor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ocupa un lugar relevante en el panteón de los escritores más admirados, imitados y estudiados de la literatura universal. Considerado por muchos como un precursor del cuento corto y de terror como género literario, Edgar Allan Poe escribió también poesía, ensayos y crítica literaria. Fascinado con lo macabro y con un especial talento para ello, Poe también exploró diversos temas y tonos...
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These 5 stories engagingly reveal Poe's virtuoso gifts for both crime detection and the macabre. Two of his most famous tales, "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective. "William Wilson" is a chilling tale of crime and evil. Also included: two tales of terror: "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "The Oblong Box."
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After an unnamed illness, the narrator sits in a coffee shop in London. Fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of the company around". He takes time to categorise the different types of people he sees. As evening falls, the narrator focuses on "a decrepit old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age," whose face has a peculiar idiosyncrasy, and whose body "was short...
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Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed originator of the detective story. His brilliant, imaginative sleuth C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding investigators like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. This audio collection of Poe's three Dupin stories also includes one non-Dupin detective tale, "Thou Art the Man." It features celebrity narrator Bronson Pinchot. The story titles are: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of...
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The title work in this collection of ten short stories and poems is widely regarded as the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe's writings. This unsettling tale in verse tells of a man's slow descent into madness as he mourns the loss of his lover. The mysterious visit of a talking raven that utters only one word sparks the man's steady decline. Now the inspiration for a major motion picture starring John Cusack, these tales of mystery and terror are here...
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''True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.' This ultimate collection of the infamous author's works includes 'The Raven', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. They focus on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion....