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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780785814535
ISBN: 0785814531
Label: Castle Books
Manufacturer: Castle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 842
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Castle Books
Studio: Castle Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780785814535
ISBN: 0785814531
Label: Castle Books
Manufacturer: Castle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 842
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Castle Books
Studio: Castle Books
Editorial Review of Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Customer Reviews of Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Masterful works
Review: As a child, I couldn't put any of Poe's short stores down, now a few decades later, nothing much has changed. I was thrilled to add this book to my collection, it is well made, and comprehensive collection. All of this at a great price.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great book!
Review: The book arrived just in time and it is in excelent conditions. This edition contain all my favorites works of Edgar Allan Poe. I recommend it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Berenice: Poe at his grimmest
Review: Despite all who have attempted the genre since, Poe remains the supreme master of the horrific short story. From this collection I select "Berenice" to comment on, not only because it is a classic example of Poe, but also because it deals with a subject so typically his, that of obsession.
There is little point in trying not to "spoil" a Poe story by avoiding telling the final outcome, for in this story, as in much of his work, the fascination lies not in a teasing or elaborate plot leading to a surprise revelation, but in morbid, gristly dwelling on the awful texture of misery, melancholia and near madness. One can read them repeatedly, and they still taste satisfyingly rank and vile.
In this short story of brooding obsession, Egaeus looses his wife, Berenice, to illness, and in a fit of abstraction and obsession opens her grave and rips out the part of her that his mind has fixated upon: her teeth. Nasty and simple, but unforgettable.
There is little joy in Poe's world. Love, hope and happiness are only shown as a prelude to loss, to provide a fading dusk against which the blackness of the tragic end stands out more clearly.
It's interesting that some of Poe's readers complained to the editor when Berenice was published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1935. This was early in Poe's career, and he reports the subscription list of this periodical as 700. In December of that year he was made editor, and by the time he left the subscription list numbered 5,500. Obviously then, as now, there was quite an appetite for horror amongst readers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Awesome Edgar Allen Poe Book!
Review: This is an excellent book including all of his poetry, short stories and other literary works! 832pages of Poe! Got it as a present and the person it was for loved it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent condition
Review: We received the book in the time designated and the book was in brand new condition
Review Summary: Masterful works
Review: As a child, I couldn't put any of Poe's short stores down, now a few decades later, nothing much has changed. I was thrilled to add this book to my collection, it is well made, and comprehensive collection. All of this at a great price.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great book!
Review: The book arrived just in time and it is in excelent conditions. This edition contain all my favorites works of Edgar Allan Poe. I recommend it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Berenice: Poe at his grimmest
Review: Despite all who have attempted the genre since, Poe remains the supreme master of the horrific short story. From this collection I select "Berenice" to comment on, not only because it is a classic example of Poe, but also because it deals with a subject so typically his, that of obsession.
There is little point in trying not to "spoil" a Poe story by avoiding telling the final outcome, for in this story, as in much of his work, the fascination lies not in a teasing or elaborate plot leading to a surprise revelation, but in morbid, gristly dwelling on the awful texture of misery, melancholia and near madness. One can read them repeatedly, and they still taste satisfyingly rank and vile.
In this short story of brooding obsession, Egaeus looses his wife, Berenice, to illness, and in a fit of abstraction and obsession opens her grave and rips out the part of her that his mind has fixated upon: her teeth. Nasty and simple, but unforgettable.
There is little joy in Poe's world. Love, hope and happiness are only shown as a prelude to loss, to provide a fading dusk against which the blackness of the tragic end stands out more clearly.
It's interesting that some of Poe's readers complained to the editor when Berenice was published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1935. This was early in Poe's career, and he reports the subscription list of this periodical as 700. In December of that year he was made editor, and by the time he left the subscription list numbered 5,500. Obviously then, as now, there was quite an appetite for horror amongst readers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Awesome Edgar Allen Poe Book!
Review: This is an excellent book including all of his poetry, short stories and other literary works! 832pages of Poe! Got it as a present and the person it was for loved it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent condition
Review: We received the book in the time designated and the book was in brand new condition