This vintage book contains the first volume of the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe. The stories of this volume include: The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, The Cold-Bug, Four Beasts in One The Homocameleopard, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Balloon-Hoax, and many more. This book constitutes a must have for those with a penchant for the macabre, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Poe s seminal work. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. He is famous for his stories of mystery and horror,...

"Der Untergang des Hauses Usher" ist ein erzahlerisches Meisterwerk von Edgar Allan Poe. Das Buch umfasst die Erzahlung Poes in deutscher Ubersetzung und Interpretationshilfen zu "Der Untergang des Hauses Usher."

Five of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales of crime and mystery are collected: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter, The Gold-Bug, and Thou Art the Man.

"Lebendig begraben" zu werden zahlt zu den Ur-Angsten des Menschen. Edgar Allan Poe teilte diese Angst und hat sie literarisch virtuos und spannend dargestellt

A new selection for the NEA s Big Read program

A compact selection of Poe s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller s art as The Tell-tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum, and such unforgettable poems as The Raven, The Bells, and Annabel Lee. Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by The Purloined...

18 of Edgar Allan Poe's dark, strange stories are collected in Poe After Dark. Poe's compelling tales, with eerie atmospheres and weird situations, are as unnerving today as when first written. Stories included are Metzengerstein, Berenice, Morella, Shadow-A Parable, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, The Man of the Crowd, The Masque of the Red Death, The Oval Portrait, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Imp of the Perverse, The Raven, and The Cask of Amontillado.

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. This collection contains Memoir, Poems of Later Life, Poems of Manhood, Scenes from Politian, Poems of Youth, Doubtful Poems, and Prose Poems. There are also three essays: The Poetic Principle, The Philosophy of Composition, and Old English Poetry.

The 'first detective' of fiction steps out
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe is widely considered to be the first true detective story; also in this volume are the author's two other detective fiction classics featuring the same central character-'The Mystery of Marie Roget' & 'The Purloined Letter.' The French detective who features in all three is Chevalier Auguste Dupin, an amateur sleuth who puts himself in the position of the criminal and then uses logical deduction to discover how a crime was committed. This is an opportunity for lovers of classic crime and...

The 'first detective' of fiction steps out
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe is widely considered to be the first true detective story; also in this volume are the author's two other detective fiction classics featuring the same central character-'The Mystery of Marie Roget' & 'The Purloined Letter.' The French detective who features in all three is Chevalier Auguste Dupin, an amateur sleuth who puts himself in the position of the criminal and then uses logical deduction to discover how a crime was committed. This is an opportunity for lovers of classic crime and...

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. This collection contains Memoir, Poems of Later Life, Poems of Manhood, Scenes from Politian, Poems of Youth, Doubtful Poems, and Prose Poems. There are also three essays: The Poetic Principle, The Philosophy of Composition, and Old English Poetry.