Name: THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Volume V
SKU: 58864571
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9789390355457

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher

Insight Publica

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.5 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9789390355457

Synopsis "THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Volume V"

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer's oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America's first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe's reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, United States, 1809-1849) was a celebrated American writer, considered a master of the short story and a renovator of Gothic narrative. His work, marked by mystery and terror, includes iconic titles such as The Raven (1845), which immortalized him, and innovative poems and stories that influenced genres like detective fiction and science fiction. In addition to his literary output, Poe stood out as a critic and theorist, especially with his essay The Philosophy of Composition (1846). His legacy remains alive and has inspired literature, cinema, music, and art to this day.

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