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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.309
EAN num: 9780394716787
ISBN number: 0394716787
Label: Vintage Books
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1026
Printing Date: September 12, 1975
Publishing house: Vintage Books
Release Date: September 12, 1975
Sale Popularity Level: 30309
Studio: Vintage Books
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All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms.
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Overall I enjoyed this product. I have been looking for some time for a complete collection of Edgar Allen Poe. Can't beat the price either. This book features all of his stories and poems. The only draw back was that I was really looking for this kind of collection in hard back, and I would have liked a book with notes on his stories. Don't get me wrong though, I am enjoying this book a lot.
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Why only four stars you may ask, Well it has nothing to do with Poe A great Writer (Even though he can be a little Droll at times) it has to do with The Book it's self i'll explain.
My First Problem was the Type. The Type was very small. im young (15, although i was 14 while reading this) so it's fine for me but to someone whos older or someone who needs glasses to read) it may be harder to read.
My Second Problem was The Margins: The problem with the Margins were the hardly were any towards the spine of the book They were around maybe a Half an inch (Maybe smaller i didint measure them) this did not help reading it at all with the type face so small.
My Third and final problem was. That although there were (as it stated) a Generous Samplaning of His essays only two of them were clearly labled These were "The Poetic Principle" and "The Rational of Verse"
But there are good things about them one thing being for sixteen dollars your getting a book that can take a little ware and tear
In the end i would recomend this book if you want to take it maybe travling but not to Keep forever If you love Poe (As many do) and want to read his Complete Tales, Poems and Esays (Includeing his novel (which is in this book) and Essay Eureka A prose poem (which is not in this preticular copy) then i would recomend spending the extra money and geting The Complete tales and Poems and Essays Reviews etc from the publisher Library of America (These are a little expensive but they will last you a Long time and give you a Enjoyable Experince)
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"Complete Tales and Poems" of Edgar Allen Poe is a great compilation of Poe's works, spanning pieces such as poems and tales.
Poe's writings have a certain timeless quality and this publication offers a good "one stop shop" for Poe readers. This is an entertaining, thought-provoking and worthwhile book...highly recommended.
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I've always had a liking for Edgar Allan Poe, with his tales of horror, mystery and suspense, done in the atmospheric prose of a master writer. Since I live close enough, I've even made some trips to his gravesite, a place that is always surrounded by a sense of sadness.
Poe was a tormented genius who died young, under mysterious circumstances, and at the time of his death he wasn't deservingly popular. Certainly his work was not cute romances for the masses -- he explored the darkness of the human heart, love, satire, and the earliest whodunnit stories. And "Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together all of his poetry and writings in one book.
Poe's fiction writings include short stories and novellas, which tend to be rather weird -- a treasure-hunt and a golden insect, a ship caught in a whirlpool, a hypnotized man talks about the universe, and stories of despair, madness, and occasionally beauty. There is also his trilogy of Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin stories, which were the very first to feature a brilliant detective solving an impossible crime.
Most people know about "The Raven" (which even has the Baltimore Ravens named after it) but Poe actually wrote a lot of poetry, most of which readers never heard of. Sometimes dark, or whimsical, or even both. "By a route obscure and lonely/Haunted by ill angels only/Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT/On a grey throne reigns upright..."
And, of course, the horror. This is what Poe is best known for, including such well-known stories as "The Fall Of The House Of Usher." But there are also lesser-known gems -- tales of a plague invading a party, being buried alive, a portrait that siphoned the life out of its subject, and a nightly visit to an Italian crypt leading to madness.
Don't read "Complete Stories and Poems" all at once. It's too intense. It's better to soak it in a little at a time, so that you can get a better feel for the different kinds of writing that Poe did, and how he excelled at pretty much everything he put down on paper. Most great writers can't boast of that much.
Poe's writing is what makes even his least story or poem come alive -- he brought a gothic, misty vibrancy to his stories, and could make his quiet dialogue seem utterly chilling (" "I have no name in the regions which I inhabit. I was mortal, but am fiend..."). It's not hard to see why he was an influence on authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Franz Kafka.
"Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" is a must-have for anyone with an appreciation for great literature and beautiful, dark writing. wn reviews, so the voting buttons appear only when you look at reviews submitted by others. ***
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