Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
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List Price: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Book Sales
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780785813507
ISBN: 0785813500
Label: Book Sales
Manufacturer: Book Sales
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 842
Publication Date: 2001-04
Publisher: Book Sales
Studio: Book Sales
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This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue.
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Summary: Disturbing Literature.
Comment: Read troughout the world, admired by Dostoievski and translated by the famous French poet Baudelaire, Poe has become a legendary writer, representing the artist as a romantic failure. A lot of his stories seem a description of the frequent nightmares he had.
But his popularity and his influence on literature - even today -depend less on nightmares than on his accomplishments as a writer of fiction and as a great lyric poet.
'The fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' show Poe's mastery of Gothic horror. His 'The Pit and the Pendulum' is a classic of horror and suspense. He invented the modern detective story with ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue '.
But he was also a great poet famous for the lyrical 'To Helen' and for the incantatory rhytm of 'The Raven'.
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Summary: Good content
Comment: This book is a good recompilation of the Poe's work. The hard cover is pretty good, but the paper is not the best.
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Summary: AMAZING Book!
Comment: This is a must-have in your personal library. A complete book from E. Allan Poe. AMAZING!
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Summary: Best Poe Collection
Comment: I've bought a few complete Poe collections over the years, and this one is my favorite. The font size is not squashed down to save pages at the expense of my eyes, and it does seem to be complete. It's also an attractively put together book.
Poe is essential reading for anyone interested in horror, and for any apsiring writer. He not only is a master of horror, but he's credited as being the inventor of the detective story.
"The Raven", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Black Cat", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and everything else you're looking for plus stories and poems you may never have heard of yet are all in here.
This is a great volume at a great price. I'd also recommend: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, Cold Streak, It (Signet Books), Coraline, & Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Summary: Masterful works
Comment: As a child, I couldn't put any of Poe's short stores down, now a few decades later, nothing much has changed. I was thrilled to add this book to my collection, it is well made, and comprehensive collection. All of this at a great price.
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