Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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Vintage Books
15 November 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Classics

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program

A compact selection of Poe's greatest

stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read

program.

This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously

chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as ""The Tell-tale Heart,"" ""The Fall

of the House of Usher,"" ""The Cask of Amontillado,"" and ""The Pit and the Pendulum,""

and such unforgettable poems as ""The Raven,"" ""The Bells,"" and ""Annabel Lee."" Poe

is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by ""The

Purloined Letter,"" ""The Mystery of Marie Roget,"" and ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue.""

Also included is his essay ""The Philosophy of Composition,"" in which he lays out

his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed ""The Raven"" as

an example.

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780307474773
ISBN 10: 0307474771
Series: Vintage Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 November 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

POEMS The Bells The City in the Sea Annabel Lee Ulalume—A Ballad To Helen (I) To Helen (II) Sonnet—To Science The Raven TALES The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Purloined Letter Ligeia The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat The Cask of Amontillado The Murders in the Rue Morgue William Wilson The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ESSAY The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.

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