American Fiction, Short Story Collections (Single Author), American Poetry, Horror, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction

Complete Tales and Poems

Name: Complete Tales and Poems
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9780394716787

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Overview

All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms.

All of the tales and 53 of his best known poems plus essays, criticisms and journalistic writings.

Synopsis

One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems—"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"—remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together with less-known masterpieces like "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym," and "Ligeia," which is now recognized as one of the first science-fiction stories, a total of seventy-three tales in all, plus fifty-three poems and a generous sampling of Poe's essays, criticism and journalistic writings.