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Essential Tales and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

Paperback | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 4.36 | 66600 Users | 126 Reviews

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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected—and surprisingly modern—flashes of dark humor and irony.

This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poe's short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poe's great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poe's most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.

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Title	:	Essential Tales and Poems
Author	:	Edgar Allan Poe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 688 pages
Published	:	October 25th 2004 by Barnes Noble Classics (first published 1843)
Categories	:	Classics. Poetry. Fiction. Horror. Short Stories

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Ratings: 4.36 From 66600 Users | 126 Reviews

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I think I will pester everyone I know into reading The Black Cat and The Tell-tale Heart, and a couple of the poems.I had always known as a teenager that I loved short horror stories, but I really fell in love with his. Before that, I would listen marveled to random friends telling ghost stories in the evenings. We have a similarly weirdly cold and dark poet in Romania as well, Bacovia, whose poems I also immediately loved.Be advised, this wasn't mandatory reading for me, being a Romanian, but I

An essential collection would have to include the only novel Poe wrote, -The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym-. Brutish read. Have tried several times. No good. Not the fault of the collector and publisher.I have to rate the collection. Enjoyed a large majority of the other stories, not only my usual favorietes, but particularly "King Pest". Because I so enjoyed some new favorite Poe stories and would not have found them otherwise, or unlikey, I will rate this collection 3 stars.

A well written book. Enjoyed reading it.

Okay, did not read this completely. I did read a few stories recommended to me and did enjoy. For now, I will return this to my library.

Lots of dead women, discovering how people have died, and burials.First time reading anything by Poe, and again appreciated the background information provided about his life and the context of the writings.Poe took some getting used to especially with his short stories, but I ended up really enjoying half of them including: Bernice, Morella, A Descent into the Maelström, The Pit and the Pendulum, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.The novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was in

A well written book. Enjoyed reading it.

Edgar Allan Poe is a master of gothic horror. His stories and poems are always a great introduction into the horror genre for anyone looking for the dark and dreary.