Edgar Allan Poe Collected Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Edgar Allan Poe was the master of tales of mystery and the macbre, and is considered the inventor of detective fiction. This extensive collection also includes his finest poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840220520
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	01/28/2004
Series:	Special Edition Using
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, followed by Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (which included "The Fall of the House of Usher") in 1839, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. He died in 1849.