The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe is a collection of short life stories of Edgar Allan Poe which are very engaging. The book includes various famous stories such as The unparalleled adventures of one Hans Pfaal which is an extremely long-winded science fiction tale about traveling to the moon in a balloon, which makes this tale into a great adventurous science fiction tale. One tale, Four Beasts in One, transports the reader to ancient Syria where they witness a strange ritual involving an emperor of Syria who is clothed as an odd hybrid beast and is praised for his brutality. The oval portrait, a science fiction or police procedural that is one of the book's most well-known stories, is succinct and to the point without sacrificing any of its power due to its concision or lack of detailed cataloging. A girl who was painted to death is the main subject of this ghost story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357270236
Publisher:	Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date:	01/02/2023
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(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.

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PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE IN the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colors. In France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur — the people are too much a race of gad-abouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the Eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. The Scotch are poor decorists. The Dutch have, perhaps, an indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains — a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone are preposterous. How this happens, it is not difficult to see. We have no aristocracy of blood, and having therefore, as a natural, and indeed as an inevitable thing, fashioned for ourselves an aristocracy of dollars, the display of wealth has here to take the place and perform the office of the heraldic display in monarchical countries. By a transition readily understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been brought to merge in simple show our notions of taste itself. To speak less abstractly. In England, for example, no mere parade of costly appurtenances would be so likely as with us to create an impression of the beautiful in respect to the appurtenances themselves, or of taste as regards the proprietor; this for the reason, first, that wealth is not, in England, the loftiest object of ambition as constituting a nobility; and secondly, that there the true nobility of blood,confining itself within the strict limits of legitimate taste, rather avoids than affects that mere costlin...