Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems + A Biography of the Author

The Greatest Writers of All Time

by Edgar Allan Poe

This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication.The A Tale of JerusalemBon-Bon Loss of Breath MetzengersteinThe Duc de l’OmeletteMS. Found in a BottleThe Assignation BereniceKing PestLionizingMorellaShadow The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans PfaallFour Beasts in One Mystification The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketHow to Write a Blackwood Article A PredicamentLigeiaSilence — A Fable The Conversation of Eiros and CharmionThe Devil in the BelfryThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Man that was Used UpWhy the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a SlingWilliam WilsonThe Business Man The Journal of Julius RodmanThe Man of the CrowdA Descent into the MaelströmEleonoraNever Bet the Devil Your HeadThe Colloquy of Monos and UnaThe Island of the FayThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThree Sundays in a Week The Domain of Arnheim The Masque of the Red DeathThe Mystery of Marie RogetThe Oval Portrait The Pit and the PendulumRaising the Wind The Black CatThe Gold-BugThe Tell-Tale HeartA Tale of the Ragged MountainsMesmeric RevelationThe Angel of the OddThe Balloon HoaxThe Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.The Oblong BoxThe Premature BurialThe Purloined LetterThe SpectaclesThou Art the ManThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Imp of the PerverseThe Power of WordsThe System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. FetherThe Thousand-and-Second Tale of ScheherazadeSome Words with a MummyThe Cask of AmontilladoThe SphinxHop-Frog or the Eight Cha

Genres: Poetry

824 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2017

About the author

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.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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