The Raven (Illustrated)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's THE RAVEN includes:

• All 25 illustrations by Gustave Doré from the 1884 Harper & Brothers edition
• A informative introduction
• A detailed biography of Edgar Allan Poe
• An illustrated version and a text-only version of the poem

No poem has ever received the kind of immediate and overwhelming response that Poe's "The Raven" did when it was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. It made Poe a household name overnight, and (though his great fame never brought much wealth) his powerful and haunting elegy to lost love has remained to this day one of the most beloved and recognizable works in the English language.

The illustrations that accompany this Top Five Classics edition were created by renowned French artist Gustave Doré for Harper & Brothers' 1884 release of THE RAVEN. Doré completed his steel-plate engravings just before passing away in January 1883. His posthumously published illustrations became famous in their own right, evoking as they do the lyrical and mystical air of Poe's masterpiece.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148602040
Publisher:	Top Five Books
Publication date:	09/13/2013
Series:	Top Five Classics , #14
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	87,717
File size:	5 MB

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.