Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

This edition includes all the Poe's Works of Poetry & Fiction that are included in the Poe Canon:
- Poems (Alone, The Raven, etc.)
- Tales (The Fall of The House of Usher, etc.)

You can move quickly back and forth among Poems and Tales by simply clicking a link in the Table of Contents.
The Logical TOC (NCX) allows you to jump back and forth between topics with a simple press of the Kindle 5-way toggle.

All the prose and all the verses are correctly indented, spaced and formatted.

INTRODUCTION
EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION
EDGAR ALLAN POE By James Russell Lowell
DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE By N. P. Willis

ESSAYS
MAELZEL'S CHESS-PLAYER
OLD ENGLISH POETRY
PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE.
MORNING ON THE WISSAHICCON
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE

POEMS

POEMS OF LATER LIFE
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
A VALENTINE.
AN ENIGMA
ANNABEL LEE.
BRIDAL BALLAD
ELDORADO.
EULALIE
FOR ANNIE
THE BELLS.
THE CITY IN THE SEA.
THE RAVEN.
THE SLEEPER.
TO F - - .
TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD
TO HELEN
TO MARIE LOUISE
TO MARIE LOUISE
TO MY MOTHER
ULALUME

POEMS OF MANHOOD
DREAM-LAND
HYMN
LENORE
SCENES FROM "POLITIAN"
SILENCE
THE COLISEUM.
THE CONQUEROR WORM.
THE HAUNTED PALACE.
TO ONE IN PARADISE.
TO ZANTE

POEMS OF YOUTH
A DREAM
A PÆAN.
AL AARAAF
AL AARAAF
DREAMS
EVENING STAR
Elizabeth
FAIRY-LAND
HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS
IMITATION
IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE
ISRAFEL
LETTER TO MR. B - .
ROMANCE
SERENADE
SONG
SONNET - TO SCIENCE
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
TAMERLANE
THE HAPPIEST DAY.
THE LAKE - - TO - -
THE VALLEY OF UNREST
TO - -
TO - -
TO HELEN
TO MARGARET
TO THE RIVER - -

DOUBTFUL POEMS
ALONE
TO ISADORE
THE VILLAGE STREET
THE FOREST REVERIE

TALES
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM.
A PREDICAMENT
A TALE OF JERUSALEM
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
BERENICE
BON-BON.
DIDDLING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES.
ELEONORA
FOUR BEASTS IN ONE - THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD
HOP-FROG
HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE.
KING PEST
LANDOR'S COTTAGE
LIGEIA
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Genres: Classics, Poetry, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Gothic, Mystery

882 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 1849

About the author

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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