The Best Of Poe

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1580493874
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic? includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe's allusions and complicated vocabulary.Edgar Allan Poe'his name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.Alive with hypnotic sounds and mesmerizing rhythms, his poetry captures both the splendor and devastation of love, life, and death. His stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable'even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations.The thirty-three selections in The Best of Poe highlight his unique qualities. Discover for yourself the mysterious allure and genius of Edgar Allan Poe, who remains one of America's most popular and important authors, even more than 150 years after his death.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307781402
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1682301656
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Edgar Allan Poe (Diversion Classics) written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. The stories of Edgar Allan Poe have long fascinated fans of both horror and suspense. This anthology showcases the tales that have captivated audiences and inspired countless adaptations. Including beloved stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Cask of Amontillado," this collection is a must-own for fans of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Download or read book Complete Tales and Poems written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781702756655
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Author The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism[3] and allegory. Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs.He often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy.His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Though known as a masterly practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following a long-standing popular tradition.Poe's literary career began in 1827 with the release of 50 copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems credited only to "a Bostonian", a collection of early poems that received virtually no attention. In December 1829, Poe released Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems in Baltimore before delving into short stories for the first time with "Metzengerstein" in 1832.His most successful and most widely read prose during his lifetime was "The Gold-Bug", which earned him a $100 prize, the most money he received for a single work. One of his most important works, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", was published in 1841 and is today considered the first modern detective story.Poe called it a "tale of ratiocination".Poe became a household name with the publication of "The Raven" in 1845, though it was not a financial success. The publishing industry at the time was a difficult career choice and much of Poe's work was written using themes specifically catered for mass market tastes.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Warbler Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781735515144
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Warbler Classics. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe's poems and short stories. Includes commentary by Charles Baudelaire and a biographical timeline of Poe's brief, turbulent life.

Author : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857300
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-11-25 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895772251
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Suspense written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamphlet on Edgar Allan Poe (4 p.) laid in.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947844599
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cask of Amontillado written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most enduring works. This is a collection of his greatest tales of grime and darkness, with his poem, "The Raven," included as a bonus. Naturally, there is debate about which of Poe's stories are really his greatest ones, with much having to do with one's personal preference. Still, the fifteen included in this edition are undoubtedly strong contenders for the distinction. Included short stories in this volume: "The "Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Black Cat," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," "Ms. Found in a Bottle," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "The Premature Burial," "The Masque of Red Death," "The Balloon Hoax," "William Wilson," "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," and last but not least, "Hop Frog."

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517092903
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sixty-seven tales written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including The tell-tale heart, The cask of Amontillado, and The raven, with a selection of the author's poems.