Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Title | Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2011-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307781402 |
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.
Edgar Allan Poe
Title | Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Hobson Quinn |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 872 |
Release | 1997-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801857300 |
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Title | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | J. W. Ocker |
Publisher | The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-10-06 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1581576765 |
Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
Edgar Allan Poe
Title | Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Collins |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 145 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0544261879 |
Describes the personal and professional life of the master of the horror genre behind “The Raven,” including a discussion of his rocky relationship with his wealthy adoptive father and his time spent working as an editor and reviewer. 15,000 first printing.
Edgar Allan Poe
Title | Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allen Poe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2018-04-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781435166189 |
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror and the author of what is considered the first modern detective story. This anthology gathers more than 20 of Poe's groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher. It also includes his trilogy of stories featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rôget, and The Purloined Letter.
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Title | The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2008-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451531056 |
Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in poems such as “The Haunted Palace” and “The Conqueror Worm,” with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in “Eldorado” a talisman to hold during our darkest moments—a timeless gift from a great American writer. Includes an Introduction by Jay Parini and an Afterword by April Bernard
Poems and Essays
Title | Poems and Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1884 |
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