Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernal realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In A Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are also here, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives. Book jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is one of America's greatest and best-loved writers. Known as the father of the detective story, Poe is perhaps most famous for his short stories—particularly his shrewd mysteries and chilling, often grotesque tales of horror—he was also an extremely accomplished poet and a tough literary critic.

Poe's life was not far removed from the drama of his fiction. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by a foster family. As a young man, he developed problems with gambling, debts, and alcohol, and was even dismissed from the army. His love life was marked by tragedy and heartbreak. Despite these difficulties, Poe produced many works now considered essential to the American literary canon.

Introduction	p. 1
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall	p. 1
The Balloon-Hoax	p. 31
Mesmeric Revelation	p. 41
Ms. Found in a Bottle	p. 49
A Descent into the Maelstrom	p. 57
Von Kempelen and his Discovery	p. 69
The Gold-bug	p. 75
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	p. 99
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	p. 107
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	p. 117
The Mystery of Marie Roget	p. 141
The Fall of the House of Usher	p. 171
The Purloined Letter	p. 185
The Tell-tale Heart	p. 199
The Black Cat	p. 203
The Imp of the Perverse	p. 211
The Premature Burial	p. 217
The Island of the Fay	p. 227
The Cask of Amontillado	p. 231
The Pit and the Pendulum	p. 237
The Oval Portrait	p. 247
The Masque of the Red Death	p. 251
The Assignation	p. 257
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	p. 267
Mystification	p. 279
How to Write a Blackwood Article	p. 285
A Predicament	p. 293
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.	p. 301
Diddling	p. 315
X-ing a Paragrab	p. 323
The Angel of the Odd	p. 329
Loss of Breath	p. 337
The Business Man	p. 347
Mellonta Tauta	p. 355
The Man that was Used Up	p. 365
Maelzel's Chess-player	p. 373
The Power of Words	p. 389
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	p. 393
The Colloquy of Monos and Una	p. 399
Silence--A Fable	p. 405
Shadow--A Parable	p. 409
A Tale of Jerusalem	p. 411
Philosophy of Furniture	p. 415
The Sphinx	p. 421
The Man of the Crowd	p. 425
"Thou Art the Man"	p. 431
Hop-Frog	p. 441
Never Bet the Devil Your Head	p. 449
Four Beasts in One	p. 457
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling	p. 463
Some Words with a Mummy	p. 467
Bon-Bon	p. 479
Magazine-Writing--Peter Snook	p. 491
Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraee"	p. 499
The Quacks of Helicon--A Satire	p. 511
Astoria	p. 519
The Domain of Arnheim	p. 537
Landor's Cottage	p. 547
William Wilson	p. 555
Ligeia	p. 569
Berenice	p. 581
Morella	p. 587
Eleonara	p. 591
Metzengerstein	p. 595
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	p. 601
The Oblong Box	p. 609
The Duc de L'Omelette	p. 617
The Spectacles	p. 621
King Pest	p. 637
Three Sundays in a Week	p. 645
The Devil in the Belfry	p. 651
Lionizing	p. 657
Narrative of a Gordon Pym	p. 661
Preface to the Poems	p. 771
Miscellaneous Poems	p. 773
The Raven
Lenore
A Valentine
Hymn
The Coliseum
To--
Ulalume
To Helen
An Enigma
Annabel Lee
To One in Paradise
The Bells
To My Mother
The Haunted Palace
The Conqueror Worm
To F--SS. O--D
The Valley of Unrest
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
A Dream Within a Dream
Silence
Dream-Land
Eulalie
To Zante
Bridal Ballad
To F--
Eldorado
Israfel
To--
For Annie
Scenes from "Politian"
Poems Written in Youth	p. 817
Sonnet--To Science
Al Aaraaf
To The River--
Tamerlane
To--
A Dream
The Lake To--
Song
To M.L.S.--
Spirits of the Dead
To Helen
Dreams
Evening Star
Alone
A Paean
Fairy-Land
Romance
"In Youth I Have Known One"
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