The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679417400 ISBN 13: 9780679417408

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1993

Synopsis

Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.

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About this title

About the Author:

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, followed by Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (which included "The Fall of the House of Usher") in 1839, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. He died in 1849.

Review:

Ralph Cosham builds up each poem or tale on Poe’s strange strings of works and imaginings. Highly Recommended. -- Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679417400
• ISBN 13: 9780679417408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 992