Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Contributors: Benjamin F. Fisher (Introduction)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9781593080648
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; American - General; LITERATURE - LIT CLASSICS TRD PB; Poetry / Single Author / American; Classics
Description: Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected—and surprisingly modern—flashes of dark humor and irony.

This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poe's short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poe's great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poe's most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.
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Table of contents: title: The World of Edgar Allan Poe; title: ix; title: Introduction by Benjamin F. Fisher; title: xv; title: POEMS; title: The Lake—To—; title: Sonnet—To Science; title: Fairy- Land; title: Israfel; title: To Helen; title: The Sleeper; title: The Valley of Unrest; title: The City in the Sea; title: The Coliseum; title: Sonnet—Silence; title: Dream-Land; title: The Raven; title: Ulalume: A Ballad; title: The Bells; title: A Dream within a Dream; title: Eldorado; title: Annabel Lee; title: TALES; title: Metzengerstein; title: Bon-Bon; title: MS. Found in a Bottle; title: The Assignation; title: Shadow—A Parable; title: Silence—A Fable; title: Berenice; title: Morella; title: King Pest; title: Ligeia; title: How to Write a Blackwood Article; title: A Predicament; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: William Wilson; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; title: A Descent into the Maelstrom; title: Never Bet the Devil Your Head; title: Eleonora; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Gold-Bug; title: The Black Cat; title: The Oblong Box; title: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; title: The Premature Burial; title: The Purloined Letter; title: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether; title: "Thou Art the Man"; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: The Sphinx; title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop- Frog; title: THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM; title: 443; title: Endnotes; title: 607