Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe Book by Edgar Allan Poe

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Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales Criticism

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Edgar Allan Poe

Harper Collins, Mar 17, 2009 - Fiction - 576 pages

The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volume

Of all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.

Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of forty, Poe wrote across several fields during his life and was noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem “The Raven,” and beloved stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer. “All of Poe’s fiction,” Thompson writes, “and the poems as well, can be seen as one coherent piece—as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world literature.”

Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poe includes some of these classics:

The Raven

Annabel Lee

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Purloined Letter

The Imp of the Perverse