| Large Format for easy reading. Volume one of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre. |
| Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
1961
| All 27 of Doré's masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of Poe's celebrated poem. Apposite quotations from the poem printed on facing pages; complete text also included. |
1995
| In the Preface to his poems, Edgar Allan Poe claimed that 'With me, poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion' and that 'I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself'. Generations of poetry lovers would disagree. The haunting and melancholy cadences of The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen and The City in the Sea have entered the canon of truly memorable poetry wherever English is spoken. Poe's short and tragic life ended before he achieved the recogniti....[more] |
1975
| From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man stowing away on a New Bedford whaler ends with 2 survivors drifting toward the South Pole in an open boat. |
1960
Stories of terror and suspense.
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| Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809. Poe was a poet, author, and literary critic. He is one of the leading authors of the Romantic period. His tales of the macabre have delighted and scared readers. He is considered the founder of the detective/fiction genre and contributed to the popularity of science fiction. In The Fall of the House of Usher a visitor realizes that there is a terrible malady within the house. When the narrator arrives at his friend?s house he realizes that Usher is ill. His symp....[more] |
1977
| The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe; Tales 4. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
| A popular spin-off from the Poetry for Young People series introduces children to America's master of the spooky story: Edgar Allan Poe. Unabridged and fully illustrated, it's the perfect collection to establish a life-long love of literature. Edgar Allan Poe's brooding tales of murder, madness, and revenge still grab today's readers. Here are five of his finest, presented and fully annotated by Andrew Delbanco, a much-honored professor of humanities at Columbia University whom Time magazine cal....[more] |
1964
| Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe's great detective.? Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it? Dossiers: The Art of the Detective Story Paris in the 1800s |
| Believing William Legrand to have gone insane following an insect bite, his friend initially decries his quest for gold as the ramblings of a madman. Yet when Legrand's conviction fails to waiver, they set off on a bizarre journey, accompanied by Jupiter, Legrand's loyal and equally skeptical servant. What follows is a strange tale of coded messages, hidden treasure, and uncanny prophecy that will both enthrall and baffle even the most perceptive readers. Part horror story, part detective fictio....[more] |
| Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," U....[more] |
1979
| Afterword by Peter Glassman. This deluxe illustrated edition features a selection of vivid tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." "Moser's watercolor paintings...are both macabre and understated. The best of them make us further imagine the terrible things beyond the edge."--Booklist. A Books of wonder Classic. |
1944
| Poe's original story of a cat haunting his drunk and abusive owner/murderer to madness, remastered with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. |
1999
| For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomaran un gran placer en descubrir los clasicos con estas bellas y economicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta seleccion editorial cuenta con titulos que abarcan todos los generos literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesia y el ensayo. |
1845
| Tales,by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of 25 stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which includeThe Fall of the House of Usher,andSilence: A Fable,together make up the body of bothTales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueandTales of the Folio Club.Taken as a whole, Poe's writing has cast its dark and exquisite shadow over many genres of literature, from the mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the science fiction of Jules Verne, but in this ....[more] |
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