The Complete Tales and Poems
A Poetry, Classics, Short Stories book. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night....
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leatherbound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," the full-length novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and much more.
Download or read The Complete Tales and Poems in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with The Complete Tales and Poems.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 1,023 pages
- ISBN: 9781435106345 / 1435106342
BJ_0r1lRouZ.pdf
More About The Complete Tales and Poems
the outlines of his figure were indistinctbut his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the mist, and of the moon, and of the dew, had left uncovered the features of his face. And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude. Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems // Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems // For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads. Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems //
Ahh, Poe. One of the most masterful authors of the last few centuries. There's not that much else I can say, it's too good for words. Rating Poe's entire body of work is not easy. Obviously he is one of the most important authors in western literary history, but Poe is, like all of us, only mortal, and so the quality of his writings ranges from brilliant to terribly boring and everything in-between. It's pretty much like another reviewer of this book remarked: the... Let me clarify: some of the stories totally deserve four or even five stars. The Raven, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart. These are all famous for a reason. They're fantastic. But let me tell you, the stories you haven't heard of--they are, likewise, unknown for a reason. Oy, the tedium. Poe really really really liked to describe...
