The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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For Poe fans worldwide, this stunning gift edition features a gorgeous deckled edge, ribbon marker, and foil and deboss details on a vibrantly colored case. This elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems, and his only full-length novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. In addition, it also includes a compelling introduction by notable historian and biographer Daniel Stashower.

Tales include:


The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall The Balloon-Hoax
Mesmeric Revelation 
Ms. Found In A Bottle 
A Descent Into The Maelström 
Von Kempelen And His Discovery 
The Gold-Bug 
The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar 
The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade  The Murders In The Rue Morgue 
The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt 
The Fall Of The House Of Usher 
The Purloined Letter 
The Tell-Tale Heart 
The Black Cat
The Imp Of The Perverse 
The Premature Burial 
The Island Of The Fay 
The Cask Of Amontillado 
The Pit And The Pendulum 
The Oval Portrait 
The Masque Of The Red Death 
The Assignation 
The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether Mystification 
How To Write A Blackwood Article 
A Predicament 
The Literary Life Of Thingum Bob, Esq. 
Diddling 
X-Ing A Paragrab
The Angel Of The Odd 
Loss Of Breath 
The Business Man 
Mellonta Tauta 
The Man That Was Used Up 
Maelzel’s Chess-Player 
The Power Of Words 
The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion
The Colloquy Of Monos And Una 
Silence—A Fable 
Shadow—A Parable 
A Tale Of Jerusalem 
Philosophy Of Furniture 
The Sphinx 
The Man Of The Crowd 
??oeThou Art The Man” 
Hop-Frog 
Never Bet The Devil Your Head 
Four Beasts In One 
Poems include:
The Raven 
Lenore 
A Valentine 
Hymn
The Coliseum
Ulalume 
To Helen 
An Enigma 
Annabel Lee 
To One In Paradise  The Bells
To My Mother 
The Haunted Palace  The Conqueror Worm  To F—S S. O—D 
The Valley Of Unrest The City In The Sea  The Sleeper
A Dream Within A Dream Silence
Dream-Land
Ulalie
To Zante
Bridal Ballad
Eldorado
Israfel
For Annie
Scenes From ??oePolitian”
The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.

 

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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