The Works of Edgar Allan Poe In Five Volumes. Vol. 4

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as america´s first great literary critic and theoretician. F Collier & Son published a five volume collection of Poe's work in hardback in 1903. This is volume 4.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781981718801
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/19/2017
Series:	The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe , #4
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.27(d)

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.