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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe Collection: His Best-Loved Tales and His Complete Poems
Masterful Genius Work Historical Spooky From Edgar Allan Poe - "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." The Essential Edgar Allan Poe Collection Contains 76 Poems Written by Poe from 1824 - 1849, as well as 23 of his most Popular and Well-Loved Stories and Tales. Tales In This Collection Poetry In This Collection Buy Your Copy Today!
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346 pages, Paperback
Published September 27, 2020
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,889 books28.6k 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...
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November 19, 2023wonderful!
September 19, 2022
My rating is only on the poem "The Raven." I could not find a book on Goodreads for just this poem, which makes sense since it is only a few pages long. Now, with that little disclaimer out of the way let's move on to my review.
This is my favorite poem. It is brilliant how it describes a person's sadness of losing his deceased love without getting overly sentimental. He is trying to take a moment to escape his sadness by getting lost in reading, but a Raven comes into his reading chamber. This bird irritates and annoys him getting him away from his task of drowning his sorrows in literature and bringing his thoughts back to his lost love Lenore.
This is my favorite poem. It is brilliant how it describes a person's sadness of losing his deceased love without getting overly sentimental. He is trying to take a moment to escape his sadness by getting lost in reading, but a Raven comes into his reading chamber. This bird irritates and annoys him getting him away from his task of drowning his sorrows in literature and bringing his thoughts back to his lost love Lenore.
September 2, 2023
This has all my favorite short stories.
The Raven = classic, quotable
The Telltale Heart = haunting
Masque of the Red Death = creepy
The Fall of the House of Usher = cringe-y
Cask of Amontillado = anxiety inducing
The Raven = classic, quotable
The Telltale Heart = haunting
Masque of the Red Death = creepy
The Fall of the House of Usher = cringe-y
Cask of Amontillado = anxiety inducing
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March 10, 2025DNF I couldn't get into it and i'm not even far enough into it to want it to count towards my goal. this is definitely not one where i'll read the stories in sequence, more just when i'm feeling like it. which maybe was the point in the first place. started and DNF'd in 2025.
August 19, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe has been a personal favorite and an inspiration for me since I was little. I enjoy finding beauty in the darker things
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