Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394716787 ISBN 13: 9780394716787

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1975

Synopsis

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, poems, and essays.

About this title

About the Author:

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.

Synopsis:

Brings together seventy-three stories and fifty-three poems by the master of the macabre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0394716787
• ISBN 13: 9780394716787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1040