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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Published 1975.
VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION.
ISBN: 0394716787
One of the most original
American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detective
story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems — "The Raven,"
"The Bells," "Annabel Lee" — remain among the most popular
in American literature.
Poe's tales of the macabre still
thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The
Purloined Letter," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together with less-known masterpieces
like "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Narrative of A. Gordon
Pym," and "Ligeia," which is now recognized as one of the first
science-fiction stories, a total of seventy-three tales in all, plus
fifty-three poems and a generous sampling of Poe's essays, criticism and
journalistic writings.
