Books with title By Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales

Whitman Books, 1972. Hardcover with illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Illustrations by Jerry E. Johnson. STORIES: "The Cask of Amontillado" ; " The Black Cat" ; "The Telltale Heart" ; "The Masque of the Red Death" ; "The Pit and the Pendulum" ; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" ; "Berenice" ; "The Fall of the House of Usher" ; "The Gold Bug" ; "A Descent into the Maelström" ; "William Wilson."

-Special Edition- This precious and cared edition includes the ghostly illustrations created by William Heath Robinson, in 1900, for the Anglo-Saxon edition of Doubleday, Page & Co (New York) of the book of Poe's Tales.Today talking about Edgar Allan Poe is talking about a teacher. A teacher of the strange; one of the most famous American writers of Romanticism.Every day more people discover it, while others rush to rediscover it. His texts provoke an irresistible attraction. In them we find talking crows, spirits of dead people and living people who seem dead. Shadows, destruction, nostalgia and love. In a way, the main character that inspired his work was himself."My life has been whim, drive, passion, longing for loneliness, mockery of the things of this world," he wrote. His misfit existence was at times as chilling as the horror texts he wrote. Poe's poetry is considered at a high level as his prose where woman, death and love flow as tragedy.“Poe has created a special, different genre, which comes only from himself, and which he took away when he died the secret. He can be called Master of the School of the Strange, for he has pushed back the limits of the impossible. ”- Jules Verne, Musée des familles, 1864

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television.

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Born in Boston, Poe was the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan. Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

The Tales: Metzengerstein. The Duc De L'omelette. A Tale Of Jerusalem. Loss Of Breath. Bon-Bon. Ms. Found In A Bottle. The Assignation. Berenice. Morella. To 14 The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaal. King Pest. Shadow - A Parable. Four Beasts In One - The Homo-Cameleopard. Mystification. Silence - A Fable. Ligeia. How To Write A Blackwood Article. A Predicament. The Devil In The Belfry. The Man That Was Used Up. The Fall Of The House Of Usher. o 27. William Wilson. The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion. Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In A Sling. The Business Man. The Man Of The Crowd. o 33. The Murders In The Rue Morgue. A Descent Into The Maelström. The Island Of The Fay. The Colloquy Of Monos And Una. Never Bet The Devil Your Head. Eleonora. Three Sundays In A Week. The Oval Portrait. The Masque Of The Red Death. The Landscape Garden. The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt. The Pit And The Pendulum. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Gold-Bug. The Black Cat. Diddling. The Spectacles. A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains. The Premature Burial. Mesmeric Revelation. The Oblong Box. The Angel Of The Odd. Thou Art The Man. The Literary Life Of Thingum Bob, Esq. The Purloined Letter. The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade. Some Words With A Mummy. The Power Of Words. The Imp Of The Perverse. The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar. The Sphinx. The Cask Of Amontillado. The Domain Of Arnheim. Mellonta Tauta. Hop-Frog. Von Kempelen And His Discovery. X-Ing A Paragrab. Landor's Cottage. Poems Introduction To "Poems Poetry. O, Tempora! O, Mores! Tamerlane. Song. Dreams. Spirits Of The Dead. Evening Star. Imitation. Stanzas. A Dream. The Happiest Day. The Lake - To - . To Margaret. Alone. Sonnet - To Science. Al Aaraaf. Romance. And more...