Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe

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born
January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

died
October 07, 1849

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The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 212,323 ratings · 4,729 reviews · 809 distinct works
The Tell-Tale Heart and Oth...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 54,332 ratings — published 1843 — 21 editions
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Complete Stories and Poems
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 53,618 ratings — published 1849 — 24 editions
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The Fall of the House of Us...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 13,711 ratings — published 1960 — 81 editions
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Essential Tales and Poems
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 10,671 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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The Cask of Amontillado
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 11,206 ratings — published 1846 — 25 editions
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The Raven and Other Poems
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 9,624 ratings — published 1845 — 27 editions
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The Pit and the Pendulum
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 5,391 ratings — published 1948 — 20 editions
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The Masque of the Red Death
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 5,139 ratings — published 1842 — 34 editions
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The Fall of the House of Usher
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 4,670 ratings — published 1839 — 55 editions
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The Pit and the Pendulum
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 4,147 ratings — published 1842 — 36 editions
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
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