Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Edgar Allan Poe ( January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales 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.


This Collection includes the following Tales:


The purloined letter • The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherezade • A descent into the Maelström • Von Kempelen and his discovery • Mesmeric revelation • The facts in the case of M. Valdemar • The black cat • The fall of the House of Usher • Silence: a fable • The masque of the Red Death • The cask of Amontillado • The imp of the perverse • The island of the Fay • The assignation • The pit and the pendulum • The premature burial • The domain of Arnheim • Landor's cottage • William Wilson • The tell-tale heart • Berenice • Eleonora.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544160283
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/27/2017
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

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.