Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

TALES by Edgar Allen Poes is a great collection of eleven of his greatest short stories. It is a must have for Edgar Allan Poe fans. Includes: Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932681888
Publisher:	NuVision Publications
Publication date:	01/28/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	400 KB

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.