This collection brings together more than fifty of Edgar Allan Poe’s most important stories, poems, and critical writings, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American Literature, in a single accessible volume.
Alongside annotated texts of each work, it also includes a complete Reader’s Guide to Poe’s work to help readers explore the contexts, style, and reception of his writing from his own time to today.
An essential resource for students and teachers of Poe, this book includes stories such as ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, and ‘The Purloined Letter’ as well as his Gothic narrative poem ‘The Raven’ and some of his most significant critical writings.
By:
Edgar Allan Poe
Edited by:
Professor Carl Ostrowski (Middle Tennessee State University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350226456
ISBN 10: 1350226459
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
Professional and scholarly
,
ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Part II Tales 25 Ms. Found in a Bottle 36 Berenice 43 Morella 48 Ligeia 51 How to Write a Blackwood Article 61 A Predicament 68 The Man That Was Used Up 74 The Fall of the House of Usher 80 William Wilson 93 The Man of the Crowd 106 The Murders in the Rue Morgue 111 A Descent into the Maelström 133 Never Bet the Devil Your Head 144 The Masque of the Red Death 150 The Pit and the Pendulum 154 The Tell-Tale Heart 163 The Gold-Bug 167 The Black Cat 190 The Premature Burial 196 The Purloined Letter 205 The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 217 The Balloon-Hoax 229 The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 237 Some Words with a Mummy 250 The Imp of the Perverse 261 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 264 The Cask of Amontillado 271 Hop-Frog 275 Part III Poems 299 Sonnet—To Science 304 Alone 304 To Helen 304 Israfel 305 The Sleeper 306 The City in the Sea 308 The Haunted Palace 309 The Conqueror Worm 310 Dream-Land 311 The Raven 312 To ––– ––– ––– Ulalume: A Ballad 315 The Bells 318 Annabel Lee 320 Part IV Eureka: A Prose Poem 327 From Eureka: A Prose Poem 329 Part V L etters, Prefaces, and Critical Writings 353 From “Letter to B–––” 357 From “Night and Morning” (Review of Bulwer) 358 Guy Fawkes (Review of Ainsworth) 363 From Ballads and Other Poems (Review of Longfellow) 367 Twice-Told Tales (Review of Hawthorne) 372 Twice-Told Tales (Review of Hawthorne continued) 373 Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House 378 From “Anastatic Printing” 380 Preface to The Raven and Other Poems 382 The Philosophy of Composition 383 From “The Poetic Principle” 391 From Poe to John Allan, December 22, 1828 392 From Poe to Thomas W. White, April 30, 1835 393 From Poe to Mrs. Maria Clemm, August 29, 1835 394 From Poe to John P. Kennedy, February 11, 1836 395 From Poe to Philip P. Cooke, September 21, 1839 396 From Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, May 4, 1845 396 From Poe to Philip P. Cooke, August 9, 1846 397 From Poe to George W. Eveleth, December 15, 1846 397 From Poe to George W. Eveleth, January 4, 1848
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a short story writer, poet, editor and critic. Born in Boston, Massachesetts, he is one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of the 19th century and he is generally considered the creator of detective fiction. Carl Ostrowski is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He is the author of Books, Maps, and Politics:A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861, winner of the 2007 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, and Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America.
