POE'S MYSTERIES: Complete Murder Mysteries, Thriller Tales & Detective Stories (Illustrated): The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Purloined Letter, The Gold Bug, The Cask of Amontillado, The Man of the Crowd, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of

by Edgar Allan Poe, Byam Shaw (Illustrator), Harry Clarke (Illustrator)

Overview

Poe is generally considered the father of the detective fiction genre. His detective tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature. This collection includes Poe's mysteries, detective stories and crime tales. Table of Contents: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget The Purloined Letter The Gold Bug Thou Art the Man The Man of the Crowd Asignation The Tell-Tale Heart A Tale of the Ragged Mountains The Oblong Box The Black Cat The Fall of the House of Usher The Premature Burial The Masque of the Red Death The Devil in the Belfry The Cask of Amontillado William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788026878117
Publisher:	e-artnow
Publication date:	07/11/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	275
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.