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Overview: Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire’s enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Slender Poe Anthology by Edgar Allan Poe (with introduction and commentary by John Allen Cann)
An anthology of the writing of Edgar Allan Poe chosen by John Allen Cann for Sacramento Public Library’s One Book Sacramento for 2013.
Contents:
Eleonora — To Helen — Eldorado — Shadow: a parable — To one in paradise — Hop-frog — The masque of the red death — The city in the sea — The power of words — Silence: a fable — Alone — Letter to Mr. B—–, 1831 — Sonnet: to science — The domain of Arnheim — The oval portrait — The colloquy of Monos and Una — The conqueror worm — The conversation of Eiros and Charmion — Israfel — To —– — Lines from the critical prose — The raven — Regarding C. Auguste Dupin — The purloined letter — The haunted palace — The imp of the perverse — The bells — Annabel Lee — The premature burial.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews – Penguin Classics
David Galloway’s introduction re-examines the myths surrounding Poe’s life and reputation. This edition includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading.
‘And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot’
This selection of Poe’s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In ‘Tell-Tale Heart’, a murderer’s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. These works display Poe’s startling ability to build suspense with almost nightmarish intensity.
A Classic Crime Collection
‘Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! –do you mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.’
The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this timeless collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humour and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, and his finest lyric and narrative poetry -The Ravenand Annabel Lee, to name just a few – that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century.
The Raven and Selected Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Stefan Rudnicki
Now the inspiration for a major motion picture starring John Cusack, these twelve tales of mystery and terror are here brought vividly to life by Blackstone Audio. The title work in this collection is widely regarded as the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe’s writings. The inventor of the modern detective story, Poe was an expert at weaving suspense and horror into tales that thrill and chill.
The Raven (illustrated by Gustave Doré) and Selected Short Stories
THE RAVEN
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COMMENT ON THE POEM.
THE RAVEN
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE TELL-TALE HEART
THE BLACK CAT
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
HOP-FROG
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGÊT
THE PURLOINED LETTER
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics)
One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. ‘The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall’ relates a man’s balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’, while the great essay ‘Eureka’ outlines Poe’s own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the genealogy of science fiction, or to understand the complexity of Poe’s own creative vision.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Selected Tales (Oxford’s World Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular–"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter"–alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
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