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Entire Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Photographic and Annotated Edition
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by Edgar, Allan Poe and Andrew Barger
Sales Rank: 52383
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: BottleTreeBooks LLC; Annotated edition April 7, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0976254190
ISBN-13: 978-0976254195
Product Dimensions:
11.3 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Book Description
"Entire Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Photographic & Annotated Edition" brings Poe to life as never before. It contains a great foreword by Andrew Barger and includes his annotations, word definitions, foreign language translations, and background information about Poe's stories and poems that provide insight into their underlying meaning. Photographs of Poe's many loves and the literary figures he satired in his stories are included. Poems sent to Poe by his many romantic interests and his poems in response are also provided. These are very telling about the man who was engaged three times and married to his thirteen-year-old first cousin. The poems are set forth so that readers can see the exchange of poetry from and to Poe as it unfolded a century and a half ago. Also included are five little-known Poe tales: "[The Bloodhounds]," "Cabs," "Morning on the Wissahiccon," "[The Rats of Park Theatre]," "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison House," and "The Swiss Bell-Ringers." Here is but a sampling of the other remarkable tales and poems included: "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Conqueror Worm," "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Gold-Bug," "The Haunted Palace," "Lenore," "The Masque of the Red Death," "MS. Found in a Bottle," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Oblong Box," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," "The Purloined Letter," "The Raven," "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison House," "Some Words with a Mummy," "The Swiss Bell-Ringers," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Thou Art the Man," and "Ulalume." If you are new to Edgar Allan Poe or already have a compilation of his sitting on your bookshelf, here is an opportunity to uniquely experience the poems and stories of the author who invented the mystery genre and defined the horror genre. Read the works of America's most brilliant and mysterious author as you never have before. Experience the Poe revival firsthand.
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"Entire Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Photographic & Annotated Edition" brings Poe to life as never before. It contains a great foreword by Andrew Barger and includes his annotations, word definitions, foreign language translations, and background information about Poe's stories and poems that provide insight into their underlying meaning. Photographs of Poe's many loves and the literary figures he satired in his stories are included. Poems sent to Poe by his many romantic interests and his poems in response are also included. These are very telling about the man who was engaged three times and married to his thirteen-year-old first cousin. The poems are ordered by person and then organized chronologically under that person so that readers can see the exchange of poetry from and to Poe as it unfolded a century and a half ago. The book contains five little-known Poe tales: "[The Bloodhounds]," "Cabs," "Morning on the Wissahiccon," "[The Rats of Park Theatre]," "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison House," and "The Swiss Bell-Ringers." Here is but a sampling of the other remarkable tales and poems included: "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Conqueror Worm," "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Gold-Bug," "The Haunted Palace," "Lenore," "The Masque of the Red Death," "MS. Found in a Bottle," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Oblong Box," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," "The Purloined Letter," "The Raven," "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison House," "Some Words with a Mummy," "The Swiss Bell-Ringers," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Thou Art the Man," and "Ulalume." If you are new to Edgar Allan Poe or already have a compilation of his sitting on your bookshelf, here is an opportunity to uniquely experience the poems and stories of the author who invented the mystery genre and defined the horror genre. Read the works of America's most brilliant and mysterious author as you never have before. Experience the Poe revival firsthand.
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Of course, as a student in middle school and high school, I read Poe in English class; The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, and my creepy-sinking-feeling-in-the-stomach favorite The Pit and the Pendulum. I was such a Poe fan that I memorized several poems including "Annabelle Lee" and "The Raven." Poe was a huge favorite also because he resided during the most influential period of his life in our own Philadelphia. Despite his ignominious death almost literally in a Baltimore gutter, he was kind of a local literary hero. This book has not only the complete works, it has background interesting to the scholar or student; there is much background on the women to whom he wrote poetry. Stories are annotated, there are photos, and a very worthy foreward by Andrew Barger. While not a dry, heavily researched treatise, this book is a valuable reference and study on the entire works of Poe and if you were going to get a collected works of Poe, I'd recommend this above all others. My only criticisms; I would have liked to have had a really in-depth biographical section and...the print is very small. While the volume is quite handy in size, the print for my (middle-aged) eyes is just hard to read, even with ye olde bifocals to read for pleasure. And I intend to re-read this book with much pleasure. It's plain after all these years that Poe is one of our greats, and deserves to be read and read often.
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