The Best Edgar Allan Poe Stories & Poems (Eldorado, The Raven, Dream-Land, The City in the Sea, Tell-Tale Heart & More)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

A collection of 22 of the best Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems. Includes:

The Fall of the House of Usher
Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
A Dream Within A Dream
Eldorado
Dream-Land
The Sleeper
A Valentine
Annabel Lee
Spirits of the Dead
The Valley of Unrest
The Haunted Palace
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Lake
Alone
To Helen
The Man of the Crowd
Manuscript Found in a Bottle
Silence - A Fable

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013729711
Publisher:	Balster Publishing
Publication date:	01/07/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	80 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.