the complete illustrated works of edgar allan poe

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. 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. 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. 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. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. It does great credit to the kind and gentlemanly feelings of Lieutenant Slidell, but it forms no inconsiderable drawback upon our previously entertained opinions of his good taste.įorgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. With the Dedicatory Letter prefixed to Spain Revisited, we have no patience whatever. Still we must be pardoned for saying that many of the same niaiseries are also apparent, and most especially an abundance of very bad grammar and a superabundance of gross errors in syntactical arrangement.

We perceive also the same terseness and originality of expression. We recognize the same artist-like way of depicting persons, scenery, or manners, by a succession of minute and well-managed details. The work now before us presents to the eye of the critical reader many if not all of those peculiarities which distinguished its predecessor. Some three months since we had occasion to express our high admiration of Lieutenant Slidell's American in England. Excerpt from The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol.

The complete illustrated works of edgar allan poe