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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

  • 432 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1940
  • 20 editions
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1 About this book

21 stories: Tell-tale Heart Cask of Amontillado Hop-Frog Black Cat Ligeia Assignation The Oval Portrait . Masque of the Red Death Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue . The Mystery of Marie Roget Purloined Letter Gold-Bug Shadow—A Parable . MS Found in a Bottle . Descent into the Maelstrom Pit and the Pendulum The Sphinx The Man of the Crowd The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether William Wilson.

34 poems: Alone Annabel Lee A Pæan Bells Bridal Ballad City in the Sea Conqueror Worm Dream Dream-Land Dreams Dream Within a Dream Eldorado Eulalie Evening Star For Annie Haunted Palace Imitation In Youth I Have Known One Israfel Lenore Raven Romance Silence Sleeper Song Spirits of the Dead To To To Helen To Helen To Science To the River Ulalume Valley of Unrest.

Good for readers who want: horror and a classic.

  • Grief
  • Fantasy poetry
  • Young adult nonfiction
  • Horror
  • Classics
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Mystery

2 About Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.

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