What do you think?
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
28 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1829
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.6k books29.6k followersThe 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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 110 reviews
June 26, 2023
It's Poe, I will always love his work. The Raven is my favorite but they all have this weird, creepy, paranoid vibe to them. I read a lot of works I hadn't read before. The Black Cat was way darker and morbid then I had thought.
July 10, 2017
Five stars because 1: he's Edgar Allan Poe, 2: these are great stories, 3: because he's Edgar Allan Poe!
May 23, 2015
جاء الكتاب في ثلاثة فصول.
في الفصل الأول تحدث عن المبدأ الشعري، ارتكاز الجمال، ماهيّة الشعر وأثره، الشعر بين العاطفة والوعي بين السموّ والانحطاط، متناولًا نماذج من الشعر الأمريكي بالتحليل
في الفصل الثاني "الأساس المنطقي للشعر" أسهب بالشرح والتمثيل والتطبيق في تناول علمي النحو والعَروض، الإيقاع، البحور والأوزان، التفعيلات، الفونيمات والمقاطع بشكل عام ثم مخصص في الشعر
في النصف الأخير تأتي مؤلفات إدغار أخيرًا
شعره في مقاطع نثرية، ومسرحيّة واحدة. الترجمة جيّدة ومحيطة بالمعنى لكنها جافّة، بعيدة عن الحمى في أسلوب پو - قياساً على المقارنة بين ترجمة قصيدة الغراب في كتاب الأدب ومذاهبه لمحمد مندور وبين هذه الترجمة-. اعتمد الرمز والأسطورة حتى لا تكاد تخلو صفحة من الهامش للمؤلف أو المترجمة للتفسير، وفي أحيان يأخذ أكثر من ثلث الصفحة. أغلب القصائد جاءت موجّهة؛ معنونة بـ"إلى..." وكنت أحب لو استرسل في المونولوج وأخذ منحنى أكثر ذاتيّه. كثير من القصائد أحداث محكية أكثر من كونها إسهاب في وصف أو تنقيب وتفكيك مشاعر واستعراض أخيلة، الجمل الفعلية طاغية على الأسلوب، الذي وجهّني بطريقة غير مقصودة إلى قراءتها كقصص قصيرة حالمة. نجمة إضافية لجهد المترجمة
في الفصل الأول تحدث عن المبدأ الشعري، ارتكاز الجمال، ماهيّة الشعر وأثره، الشعر بين العاطفة والوعي بين السموّ والانحطاط، متناولًا نماذج من الشعر الأمريكي بالتحليل
في الفصل الثاني "الأساس المنطقي للشعر" أسهب بالشرح والتمثيل والتطبيق في تناول علمي النحو والعَروض، الإيقاع، البحور والأوزان، التفعيلات، الفونيمات والمقاطع بشكل عام ثم مخصص في الشعر
في النصف الأخير تأتي مؤلفات إدغار أخيرًا
شعره في مقاطع نثرية، ومسرحيّة واحدة. الترجمة جيّدة ومحيطة بالمعنى لكنها جافّة، بعيدة عن الحمى في أسلوب پو - قياساً على المقارنة بين ترجمة قصيدة الغراب في كتاب الأدب ومذاهبه لمحمد مندور وبين هذه الترجمة-. اعتمد الرمز والأسطورة حتى لا تكاد تخلو صفحة من الهامش للمؤلف أو المترجمة للتفسير، وفي أحيان يأخذ أكثر من ثلث الصفحة. أغلب القصائد جاءت موجّهة؛ معنونة بـ"إلى..." وكنت أحب لو استرسل في المونولوج وأخذ منحنى أكثر ذاتيّه. كثير من القصائد أحداث محكية أكثر من كونها إسهاب في وصف أو تنقيب وتفكيك مشاعر واستعراض أخيلة، الجمل الفعلية طاغية على الأسلوب، الذي وجهّني بطريقة غير مقصودة إلى قراءتها كقصص قصيرة حالمة. نجمة إضافية لجهد المترجمة
Read
April 14, 2025The Fall of the House of Usher
A Descent into the Maelstrom
A Tale of Jerusalem
Reading as part of the audiobook The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories
A Descent into the Maelstrom
A Tale of Jerusalem
Reading as part of the audiobook The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories
December 22, 2023
Well, there it is--the end of this year's biggest reading project. Just in the nick of time as the year's end looms.
And, while I have to admit I really wasn't up to the technical knowledge of the discourse on poetry, or the astronomy of "Eureka," it was a wonderful experience to read all of the tales together, as well as Poe's complete poetic oeuvre, meager as it is, and to explore for the first time the journalism, the humorous tales, and the book reviews. Particularly these latter--since they make up the last two volumes of my 11 volume set--gave me a feel for the man. Most of us either like a book or don't. When we like it we write about all of the things we liked and leave it at that--and idem in reverse when we dislike a book. But Poe's book reviews isolated elements of genius right alongside risible puerile elements as if the two were easily combined. Maybe they are. I got both a feeling for a man who wished he'd concentrated on poetry as he was convinced that was the best that literature could do--but who was also proud of his own short tales as he (in his review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales holds them, if inferior to verse, at least better than novels and epic poetry, and who wishes he'd spent more time writing his own literature, I think, rather than magazine fodder--even if he's also obviously a voracious reader and quite up on the magazine scene in both the US and great Britain.
Perhaps that's all a pose, too. Maybe like all of us writers he wrote all that he could and only used the magazine jobs as an excuse for not having equaled Keats's, or at least Shelley's poetic oeuvres. Certainly my journalist ex-wife used her day-job as an excuse--and still does, I imagine, even if her books seem to be getting more and more serious in their objects of study--from musicians to Joan Didion. Still, she will never write that novel she always said she wanted to write because she doesn't really want to write it. (I'm not trying to sound superior or anything--I'm utterly incapable of writing a damn email at times, I'm just making the point that we write what we are permitted to write and most of our so-called reasons for not writing something are so much hot air.)
I also discovered this rogue essay that claims Poe stole "The Raven" from poet Mathew Franklin Whittier. I tried hard to consider this but it's really difficult. Not that the act itself is impossible by any means, but because authors are, to we of later generations, their work, and since "The Raven" is by far Poe's signature work, it's really hard to dis-attach the author from the poem. It's true that Poe wrote no other poem like it and that it fits perfectly his opinion (again from the essay on Hawthorne) of the ideal work of literature. Thus, if he was going to steal something, this would be it for it fitted his aesthetic perfectly.
I did sometimes feel in his works of criticism that he was more Salieri than Mozart, that he knew literature better than most of its practitioners. But then again I never really cared for Mozart. And no one has written better imaginative tales than Poe, ever, imho.
Oh, I decided to write a little something about each tale as I read it so you'll find reviews on every single tale posted on this site. Wow. I feel a little guilty as doing that (and then including this full volume) nearly doubled my page count for Poe (but I wanted some credit for all of the essays and reviews!) and made it look like I read some 140 books this year. For the record, counting each volume of Poe as a single book, I've read exactly 80 books as of today and 80 was my goal for the year, but I'll finish at least one more--maybe even 2 or 3) before the year is officially over so I done good. I've increased my page count in each of the last 5 years--not sure how long I can sustain that, but my long commute to work twice a week is helping these days.
And, while I have to admit I really wasn't up to the technical knowledge of the discourse on poetry, or the astronomy of "Eureka," it was a wonderful experience to read all of the tales together, as well as Poe's complete poetic oeuvre, meager as it is, and to explore for the first time the journalism, the humorous tales, and the book reviews. Particularly these latter--since they make up the last two volumes of my 11 volume set--gave me a feel for the man. Most of us either like a book or don't. When we like it we write about all of the things we liked and leave it at that--and idem in reverse when we dislike a book. But Poe's book reviews isolated elements of genius right alongside risible puerile elements as if the two were easily combined. Maybe they are. I got both a feeling for a man who wished he'd concentrated on poetry as he was convinced that was the best that literature could do--but who was also proud of his own short tales as he (in his review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales holds them, if inferior to verse, at least better than novels and epic poetry, and who wishes he'd spent more time writing his own literature, I think, rather than magazine fodder--even if he's also obviously a voracious reader and quite up on the magazine scene in both the US and great Britain.
Perhaps that's all a pose, too. Maybe like all of us writers he wrote all that he could and only used the magazine jobs as an excuse for not having equaled Keats's, or at least Shelley's poetic oeuvres. Certainly my journalist ex-wife used her day-job as an excuse--and still does, I imagine, even if her books seem to be getting more and more serious in their objects of study--from musicians to Joan Didion. Still, she will never write that novel she always said she wanted to write because she doesn't really want to write it. (I'm not trying to sound superior or anything--I'm utterly incapable of writing a damn email at times, I'm just making the point that we write what we are permitted to write and most of our so-called reasons for not writing something are so much hot air.)
I also discovered this rogue essay that claims Poe stole "The Raven" from poet Mathew Franklin Whittier. I tried hard to consider this but it's really difficult. Not that the act itself is impossible by any means, but because authors are, to we of later generations, their work, and since "The Raven" is by far Poe's signature work, it's really hard to dis-attach the author from the poem. It's true that Poe wrote no other poem like it and that it fits perfectly his opinion (again from the essay on Hawthorne) of the ideal work of literature. Thus, if he was going to steal something, this would be it for it fitted his aesthetic perfectly.
I did sometimes feel in his works of criticism that he was more Salieri than Mozart, that he knew literature better than most of its practitioners. But then again I never really cared for Mozart. And no one has written better imaginative tales than Poe, ever, imho.
Oh, I decided to write a little something about each tale as I read it so you'll find reviews on every single tale posted on this site. Wow. I feel a little guilty as doing that (and then including this full volume) nearly doubled my page count for Poe (but I wanted some credit for all of the essays and reviews!) and made it look like I read some 140 books this year. For the record, counting each volume of Poe as a single book, I've read exactly 80 books as of today and 80 was my goal for the year, but I'll finish at least one more--maybe even 2 or 3) before the year is officially over so I done good. I've increased my page count in each of the last 5 years--not sure how long I can sustain that, but my long commute to work twice a week is helping these days.
Want to Read
August 30, 2026Part of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal library according to Scott Fitzgerald: Romantic and Realist by John Richard Kuehl 1958
Did Not Finish
April 16, 2026اظن انه من اسوأ ما يمكن ان نفعله أن نترجم الشعر.
November 15, 2018
Read all these many years ago.
Classic. A must read for all
Classic. A must read for all
October 25, 2020
A good drawing from the well of Poe's tales.
Memoir by George Edward Woodbury - 3 Stars
Introduction to The Tales - Edmund Clarence Stedman- 1 Star
ROMANCES OF DEATH
Shadow-A Parable - 5 Stars
The Fall of the House of Usher - 5 Stars
Berenice - 5 Stars
The Oval Portrait - 4 Stars
Morella - 4.5 Stars
Ligeia - 5 Stars
Eleonora - 4 Stars
The Colloquy of Monos and Una - 4 Stars
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - 4 Stars
The Power of Words - 4 Stars
Silence-A Fable - 4.5 Stars
OLD WORLD ROMANCE:
The Masque of the Red Death - 5 Stars
The Assignation - 5 Stars
The Cask of Amontillado - 5 Stars
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - 3.5 Stars
Metzengerstein - 4 Stars
The Pit and the Pendulum - 5 Stars
Hop-Frog - 5 Stars
Memoir by George Edward Woodbury - 3 Stars
Introduction to The Tales - Edmund Clarence Stedman- 1 Star
ROMANCES OF DEATH
Shadow-A Parable - 5 Stars
The Fall of the House of Usher - 5 Stars
Berenice - 5 Stars
The Oval Portrait - 4 Stars
Morella - 4.5 Stars
Ligeia - 5 Stars
Eleonora - 4 Stars
The Colloquy of Monos and Una - 4 Stars
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - 4 Stars
The Power of Words - 4 Stars
Silence-A Fable - 4.5 Stars
OLD WORLD ROMANCE:
The Masque of the Red Death - 5 Stars
The Assignation - 5 Stars
The Cask of Amontillado - 5 Stars
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - 3.5 Stars
Metzengerstein - 4 Stars
The Pit and the Pendulum - 5 Stars
Hop-Frog - 5 Stars
March 11, 2025
While I did not read all of his short stories in the collection, I read a lot. Some are very macabre, but makes them even more intriguing.
I enjoyed the reference to the “pale blue eye” in “The Tell-tale Heart.” An all-knowing cat as a revenge-seeking character in “The Black Cat” was very unique. There is some challenging language that isn’t appropriate for today’s reader in “The Gold Bug,” and you have to read it remembering the culture in which it was written.
I enjoyed the reference to the “pale blue eye” in “The Tell-tale Heart.” An all-knowing cat as a revenge-seeking character in “The Black Cat” was very unique. There is some challenging language that isn’t appropriate for today’s reader in “The Gold Bug,” and you have to read it remembering the culture in which it was written.
April 30, 2015
#
لم أقرأ شيئا مثل هذا من قبل.
الكلمات ..هنا الكلمات كما لو كانت موسيقى متناغمة، كل كلمة تقوم بأداء عزفها منفردة بذاتها ومتحدة مع غيرها في جمل استثنائية التركيب ومذهلة الصياغة أمعنت في تعميق المعنى وتبسيطه في آن واحد.
ألان بو هنا يكتب عن الشعر بالشعر، يصفه بذاته، يمزجه ببعضه ويستخلص منه المعنى الكامل للشعر وحقيقته.
الترجمة جيدة نوعا ما.
لم أقرأ شيئا مثل هذا من قبل.
الكلمات ..هنا الكلمات كما لو كانت موسيقى متناغمة، كل كلمة تقوم بأداء عزفها منفردة بذاتها ومتحدة مع غيرها في جمل استثنائية التركيب ومذهلة الصياغة أمعنت في تعميق المعنى وتبسيطه في آن واحد.
ألان بو هنا يكتب عن الشعر بالشعر، يصفه بذاته، يمزجه ببعضه ويستخلص منه المعنى الكامل للشعر وحقيقته.
الترجمة جيدة نوعا ما.
September 13, 2014
ترجمة الشعر خيانة
Read
November 9, 2023Planning to use this as a daily devotional next October.
October 8, 2021
All of these works are simply amazing. The fact that they are products of their time is astonishing. I would do anything to read each and every one of these again for the first time and to feel those emotions again for the first time- so shocking and so unsettling in a way that only Poe could pull off.
January 10, 2024
Poe is a master, and his works are foundational to the genre. No much more needs to be said, other than after a near 200 years since their first publication, they can still grip the reader in suspense.
September 20, 2024
Im a big edgar allen poe enjoyer, once you know more about him and then read his stories and poems they are so deep and you really connect with some selections in here. I think his mind is really extraordinary and interesting and i love his work.
August 16, 2018
المقال عن الشعر في مقدمة الكتاب هو الأجمل، أما ترجمة الشعر فسيئة
December 17, 2022
Poe. Classic. Great to read and and re-read.
January 4, 2024
Such fond Middle school memories. On a midnight Dreary...Lenore....Nevermore
February 11, 2024
He’s so unhinged, and I love it. Really likes to chop up bodies and put them behind walls or in the floor.
October 4, 2024
I'm in a comparative horror lit class and I think Poe is a little overrated compared to some of his contemporaries.
August 4, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe's works are a mixed bunch. The creepy short stories are still incredibly powerful. The ones where he tries to be funny seem really dated.
Not sure what I make of the poetry.
But I'll always remember that moment when I was 11 or 12 when I was reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time and came across those immortal italicised words: We have put her living in the tomb! Freaked. Me. Out.
But also made me a convert ever since to the power of creepy stories ... When Poe is on his game, he still has the power to enthrall.
Not sure what I make of the poetry.
But I'll always remember that moment when I was 11 or 12 when I was reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time and came across those immortal italicised words: We have put her living in the tomb! Freaked. Me. Out.
But also made me a convert ever since to the power of creepy stories ... When Poe is on his game, he still has the power to enthrall.
October 25, 2018
I completely enjoyed reading this book of some of Poe's works.
July 15, 2020
I love the Raven
Read
October 24, 2021does it count if its just the table of contents?
March 12, 2022
Not a novel
This was not what I expected. It is just a list of Edgar Allan Poe works. If you are looking for something or research OK Enjoy 2022
This was not what I expected. It is just a list of Edgar Allan Poe works. If you are looking for something or research OK Enjoy 2022
March 23, 2022
get left on red bozo
October 12, 2025
Nevermore, a word to sum all english poetry in one word: gothic.
May 23, 2026
The Raven was really cool
September 30, 2026
I like Edgar Allen Poe’s stories but his poems are my favorite! Specifically Lenore.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 110 reviews