Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

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9786057876409: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6057876407 ISBN 13: 9786057876409

Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books, 1840

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

"Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single."

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Part 1

Morella
Lionizing
William Wilson
The Man That Was Used Up
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Duc de L'Omelette
MS. Found in a Bottle
Bon-Bon
Shadow
The Devil in the Belfry
Ligeia
King Pest
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament

Part 2

Four Beasts in One
Silence
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
A Tale of Jerusalem
Von Jung
Loss of Breath
Metzengerstein
Berenice
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

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About the Author:

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Other Books of Author: -The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) -The Raven (1845) -The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) -The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) -The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) -Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) -The Cask of Amontillado (1846) -The Masque of the Red Death (1842) -The Purloined Letter (1844) -A Descent into the Maelstr�m (1841)

Review:

The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published. But from the fact that, during a period of some two or three years, I have written five-and-twenty short stories whose general character may be so briefly defined, it cannot be fairly inferred -- at all events it is not truly inferred -- that I have, for this species of writing, any inordinate, or indeed any peculiar taste or prepossession. I may have written with an eye to this republication in volume form, and may, therefore, have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design. This is, indeed, the fact; and it may even happen that, in this manner, I shall never compose anything again.

E. Allan Poe (Author)

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