Collected here in one volume is the Complete selection of Edgar Allan Poe's works - Including the Novels, Essays and Plays that are often left out of most other collections, as well as a host of unique illustrations from the original publications by the likes of Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke and Gustave Dore.
This is one of the few collections that actually offers a genuinely COMPLETE volume of Edgar Allan Poe's works, carefully arranged and laid-out into beautifully illustrated chapters, and offered at an excellent price.
Included in The Complete Edgar Allan Poe are 148 separate works, some of the most famous and notable are listed here:
Poems:
"The Raven"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Bells"
"Annabel Lee"
"A Dream Within a Dream"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"Fairy Land"
"Al Aaraaf"
Tales:
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"Loss of Breath"
Essays:
"A Few Words on Secret Writing"
"The Balloon Hoax"
"Eureka: a Prose Poem"
"Morning on the Wissahiccon"
Novels:
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"
"The Journal of Julius Rodman"
Plays and Other Writings:
"The Politian"
"Introduction to the Conchologist's First Book"
"The Lighthouse"
Edgar Allan Poe è nato a Boston (USA) nel 1809 da una famiglia di attori girovaghi. Non ebbe modo di conoscerli approfonditamente poiché la madre morì quando ancora era un infante e il padre, alcolizzato, abbandonò la famiglia subito dopo la morte della moglie. Il piccolo Edgar fu quindi allevato da un ricco mercante di Richmond di nome John Allan.
Anche Edgar Allan Poe era solito deliziarsi dell'uso di alcool e gioco d'azzardo, motivo per cui John Allan lo estromise dal testamento.