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Here is a sampling, the third volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius, " as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us. Includes "The Marrative of A. Gordon Pym" and others.

This volume of THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE we see what is, in the opinion of the editors who compiled the Raven Edition in the 19th century, the tail end of Poe's fiction. "A Tale of Jerusalem" is a tasteless joke and "The Sphinx" is a pedantic one. But there are more interesting tales present. "Thou Art the Man, " for all the characters have names like something out of an 18th century farce, is a middling-good mystery story. "The Man In the ...

This volume of THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE contains examples of his frantic and (to 21st century readers at least) forced humor, but also such unusual items as "Mellonia Tauta, " a satirical science-fiction story set in the year 2848 aboard an airship, and "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, " in which two spirits, in the afterlife, recall how the Earth was destroyed by a comet which drew all the nitrogen out of the atmosphere, leaving t...

Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius, " as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us. This volume includes "The Tell-Tale Heart, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Purloined Letter, " "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, " "William ...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: The Rue Morgue and Others -- a sampling of the works of Poe. A brilliant, driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- three-fifths of him genius, which is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.

This volume of THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE we see what is, in the opinion of the editors who compiled the Raven Edition in the 19th century, the tail end of Poe's fiction. "A Tale of Jerusalem" is a tasteless joke and "The Sphinx" is a pedantic one. But there are more interesting tales present. "Thou Art the Man, " for all the characters have names like something out of an 18th century farce, is a middling-good mystery story. "The Man In the ...

This volume of THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE contains examples of his frantic and (to 21st century readers at least) forced humor, but also such unusual items as "Mellonia Tauta, " a satirical science-fiction story set in the year 2848 aboard an airship, and "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, " in which two spirits, in the afterlife, recall how the Earth was destroyed by a comet which drew all the nitrogen out of the atmosphere, leaving t...

Poe didn't merely write stories which were "the best of their kind, " but which were the best of several kinds, some of which he invented. In the present volume we see what is his most extensive and in many ways most intriguing work of fiction, "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym." This is Poe's only attempt at a novel, if one discounts the incomplete hoax-serial, "The Journal of Julius Rodman, " a supposed account of explorations in the West, whi...

Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius, " as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.T...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: The Rue Morgue and Others -- a sampling of the works of Poe, a brilliant, driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- three-fifths of him genius, which is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.