The Complete Edgar Allan Poe: 148 Poems, Tales, Novels, Essays and Plays

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Collected here in one volume is the Complete selection of Edgar Allan Poe's works - Including the Novels, Essays and Plays that are often left out of most other collections, as well as a host of unique illustrations from the original publications by the likes of Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke and Gustave Dore.

This is one of the few collections that actually offers a genuinely COMPLETE volume of Edgar Allan Poe's works, carefully arranged and laid-out into beautifully illustrated chapters, and offered at an excellent price.

Included in The Complete Edgar Allan Poe are 148 separate works, some of the most famous and notable are listed here:

Poems:
"The Raven"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Bells"
"Annabel Lee"
"A Dream Within a Dream"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"Fairy Land"
"Al Aaraaf"

Tales:
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"Loss of Breath"

Essays:
"A Few Words on Secret Writing"
"The Balloon Hoax"
"Eureka: a Prose Poem"
"Morning on the Wissahiccon"

Novels:
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"
"The Journal of Julius Rodman"

Plays and Other Writings:

"The Politian"
"Introduction to the Conchologist's First Book"
"The Lighthouse"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148341772
Publisher:	Bybliotech
Publication date:	02/12/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 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.