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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes: Volume Five: Tales-Mystery and Occultism
TRE GOLD-BUG
VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY
MESMERIC REVELATION
THE ACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY
METZENGERSTEIN
WILLIAM WILSON
THE MAN OF THE CROWD
THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY
MESMERIC REVELATION
THE ACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY
METZENGERSTEIN
WILLIAM WILSON
THE MAN OF THE CROWD
THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
198 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1904
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,797 books28.7k followersThe 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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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December 11, 2018
Reading the 1904 edition of this book was a truly amazing experience - I only wish that the stories offered within held the same level of wonder. Many of the stories within were likely stemmed from cutting edge science at the time, but haven’t aged in a particularly interesting manner.
My two favourite stories, ‘Some Words With a Mummy’ and ‘William Wilson’ deal with more psychological aspects of the macabre, the area where Poe is at his finest (in my opinion).
My two favourite stories, ‘Some Words With a Mummy’ and ‘William Wilson’ deal with more psychological aspects of the macabre, the area where Poe is at his finest (in my opinion).
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