Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781435153813
Publisher:	Fall River Press
Publication date:	12/18/2013
Series:	Amazing Values Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1040
Sales rank:	377,747
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
	The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall	1
	The Balloon-Hoax	31
	Mesmeric Revelation	41
	Ms. Found in a Bottle	49
	A Descent into the Maelstrom	57
	Von Kempelen and his Discovery	69
	The Gold-bug	75
	The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	99
	The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	107
	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	117
	The Mystery of Marie Roget	141
	The Fall of the House of Usher	171
	The Purloined Letter	185
	The Tell-tale Heart	199
	The Black Cat	203
	The Imp of the Perverse	211
	The Premature Burial	217
	The Island of the Fay	227
	The Cask of Amontillado	231
	The Pit and the Pendulum	237
	The Oval Portrait	247
	The Masque of the Red Death	251
	The Assignation	257
	The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	267
	Mystification	279
	How to Write a Blackwood Article	285
	A Predicament	293
	The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.	301
	Diddling	315
	X-ing a Paragrab	323
	The Angel of the Odd	329
	Loss of Breath	337
	The Business Man	347
	Mellonta Tauta	355
	The Man that was Used Up	365
	Maelzel's Chess-player	373
	The Power of Words	389
	The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	393
	The Colloquy of Monos and Una	399
	Silence--A Fable	405
	Shadow--A Parable	409
	A Tale of Jerusalem	411
	Philosophy of Furniture	415
	The Sphinx	421
	The Man of the Crowd	425
	"Thou Art the Man"	431
	Hop-Frog	441
	Never Bet the Devil Your Head	449
	Four Beasts in One	457
	Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling	463
	Some Words with a Mummy	467
	Bon-Bon	479
	Magazine-Writing--Peter Snook	491
	Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraee"	499
	The Quacks of Helicon--A Satire	511
	Astoria	519
	The Domain of Arnheim	537
	Landor's Cottage	547
	William Wilson	555
	Ligeia	569
	Berenice	581
	Morella	587
	Eleonara	591
	Metzengerstein	595
	A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	601
	The Oblong Box	609
	The Duc de L'Omelette	617
	The Spectacles	621
	King Pest	637
	Three Sundays in a Week	645
	The Devil in the Belfry	651
	Lionizing	657
	Narrative of a Gordon Pym	661
	Preface to the Poems	771
	Miscellaneous Poems	773
	The Raven
	Lenore
	A Valentine
	Hymn
	The Coliseum
	To--
	Ulalume
	To Helen
	An Enigma
	Annabel Lee
	To One in Paradise
	The Bells
	To My Mother
	The Haunted Palace
	The Conqueror Worm
	To F--SS. O--D
	The Valley of Unrest
	The City in the Sea
	The Sleeper
	A Dream Within a Dream
	Silence
	Dream-Land
	Eulalie
	To Zante
	Bridal Ballad
	To F--
	Eldorado
	Israfel
	To--
	For Annie
	Scenes from "Politian"
	Poems Written in Youth	817
	Sonnet--To Science
	Al Aaraaf
	To The River--
	Tamerlane
	To--
	A Dream
	The Lake To--
	Song
	To M.L.S.--
	Spirits of the Dead
	To Helen
	Dreams
	Evening Star
	Alone
	A Paean
	Fairy-Land
	Romance
	"In Youth I Have Known One"