The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
| Author: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Category: | American Hegemony [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 01 Apr 2000 |
| Pages: | 252 |
| File Size: | 1.44 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 19 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 630,015 No 1 most popular |
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Author Book The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 and the author of 58 another books.
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
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Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Title: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Contents: The purloined letter -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherezade -- A descent into the Maelström -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Mesmeric revelation -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The black cat -- The fall of the House of Usher -- Silence: a fable -- The masque of the Red Death -- The cask of Amontillado -- The imp of the perverse -- The island of the Fay -- The assignation -- The pit and the pendulum -- The premature burial -- The domain of Arnheim -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- The tell-tale heart -- Berenice -- Eleonora.
Credits: Updated: 2021-10-16
Credits: Updated: 2021-11-18
Language: English
LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Fantasy fiction
Subject: Horror tales, American
Subject: American fiction -- 19th century
Release Date: Apr 1, 2000
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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