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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Hardcover – November 18, 1966

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This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday (November 18, 1966)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 832 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385074077
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385074070
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.65 x 1.94 x 8.51 inches

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Author, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is credited with pioneering the short story genre, inventing detective fiction, and contributing to the development of science fiction. However, Poe is best known for his works of the macabre, including such infamous titles as The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Lenore, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe was one of the first writers to make his living exclusively through his writing, working for literary journals and becoming known as a literary critic. His works have been widely adapted in film. Edgar Allan Poe died of a mysterious illness in 1849 at the age of 40.

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Dave Perry

This is one heavy book!

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2023

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This addition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe includes nearly every story, short novel & poem that he ever wrote! And this is one of those rare books that, God willing, I will read over and over again in the years to come!
There is so much entertainment & enjoyment in this little dandy that you simply can't go wrong with the small price tag! And with the near completeness of this addition, you can even pass it on to your children so that they can enjoy it for many years to come!

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J C E Hitchcock

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Before reading this collection, I knew Edgar Allan Poe as a poet and as the author of the Gothic horror stories which after his death were collected as "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", although he himself never published a collection with this title. I was therefore surprised to discover that his range of subject-matter was considerably wider than this and that the majority of his short stories do not fall within this category; he was also a prolific author of satirical and humorous tales and of what are referred to as "fantasies".

There is perhaps a reason why Poe is today best known for a few works making up only a small part of his output. Reading his dramatic fragment "Politian", a fusty cod-Shakespearean blank-verse tragedy set in Renaissance Italy, I quickly understood why, after a few scenes, Poe abandoned not only the play itself but any idea of making a career as a dramatist. (He never wrote for the stage again). About his leaden tales of humour and satire the kindest thing to say would be that most of them clearly reveal just why Poe is not principally remembered today as a humorist or satirist, although there are occasionally some flashes of interest. One that caught my attention was "The 1,002nd Tale of Scheherazade", which uses the language of the Arabian Nights fairy-tale to inform the reader of some of the wonders of nineteenth-century science and technology, the twist being that fact is indeed stranger than fiction and that when Scheherazade recounts scientific fact rather than fantasy nobody believes her.

This volume also includes Poe's only novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". This starts out as a gripping seafaring yarn about a young man who stows away on a Nantucket whaling ship, and whose experiences include mutiny, shipwreck and cannibalism. The second half of the story, however, turns into something closer to science fiction, as Pym is rescued by a ship on a voyage to explore the Antarctic, a region of the globe still largely unknown when the book was published in 1838. According to Poe Antarctica is not an ice-covered continent but an open sea with a relatively mild climate, which gets steadily milder the closer one approaches to the South Pole, and containing a number of islands populated by dark-skinned savages.

Poe can be seen as a pioneer of science fiction, although the advance of scientific knowledge since his day means that what was once speculative fiction is now either banal fact or else completely implausible. Readers in the 1840s might have been persuaded that it was possible to travel from the Earth to the Moon by balloon, as happens to the protagonist of "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal", but modern readers are unlikely to be so gullible, and the ending, in which Poe pulls the rug out from under his readers' feet by revealing the whole thing to be a hoax, will not come as a surprise.

Another genre in which Poe acted as a pioneer was that of the detective story. Although he only wrote three stories in this genre, his hero C. Auguste Dupin anticipates Sherlock Holmes in his ability to solve crimes by deductive reasoning. Like Holmes, and a number of other fictional sleuths such as Hercule Poirot, Dupin is not a police officer but a gentlemanly amateur. Of the three Dupin stories, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter" both end with an elegant solution to the mystery, although I found the third, "The Murder of Marie Roget", dull and pedestrian. "The Gold-Bug" is a mystery story of another type, concentrating not on a crime but on a search for buried treasure and reflecting Poe's interest in the science of cryptography.

During his lifetime, Poe was better known as a literary critic than as an author of fiction, and in the years after his death had the curious distinction, for an American writer, of becoming better known in Continental Europe than in the English-speaking world. He was particularly well-known in France, where his work was translated and popularised by Charles Baudelaire. This is perhaps not surprising, as I have often found there is something rather un- American about those works by which he is best remembered today. One might have expected the early literary works of the young Republic to be vigorous, optimistic and democratic in tone, but Poe's Gothic tales and poems are sombre and pessimistic, often aristocratic in their subject-matter and frequently set in Europe. "Metzengerstein", for example, is set in Hungary, "The Masque of the Red Death" in mediaeval Italy, "The Pit and the Pendulum" in Spain under the Inquisition and the Dupin stories in France. Several of his stories deal with a mad or cruel aristocrat or ruler who is overcome by some terrible fate ("Metzengerstein", "The Masque of the Red Death" or "Hop-Frog"), and a recurring theme in others is a ruined or ruinous palace or castle. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" the title has a double meaning; it can be interpreted as referring to the decline or a once-great family or to the collapse of an actual building.

Unlike some earlier Gothic writers, Poe does not always make use of the supernatural in his stories. He can also create a sense of horror by evoking the terrible power of nature ("A Descent into the Maelstrom") or the cruelty of which humans are capable ("The Pit and the Pendulum"). Both those stories end happily, with the narrator saved almost miraculously from his terrifying predicament, although an escape from death is the exception rather than the rule in Poe's horror stories, where death is more often something inexorable. The death of a beloved young woman is a particularly recurrent theme, possibly reflecting the early deaths of his mother and his wife, and occurs in poems such as "Annabel Lee", "The Raven" and "Ulalume"), and stories such as "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". (Both these stories also deal with another of Poe's obsessions, premature burial).

Both as a poet and as an author of short stories, Poe is a very uneven writer. At his best, however, he must rank as one of America's finest with a unique ability to conjure up an atmosphere is psychological horror in his stories and to convey emotion through the musical use of language in his poetry. (Perhaps his greatest achievement in this regard is "The Bells", in which he reproduces in words the sounds of four different types of bell- silver, golden, brazen and iron, corresponding to the emotions of merriment, joy, terror and grief).

On a final note, I was very impressed by the handsome elegance of the hardback volume itself, confirming my view that American books, both hardback and paperback, are often superior in quality to British ones.

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THE short story writer.

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2011

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What can it be said about the literary talent of Edgar Allan Poe at this point of time? This American writer was an astounding man of letters, without whose contributions our world would probably be more boring and dull. He was able to elevate an underrated narrative format like the short story form to the category of real art, and also the first one to reasonably theorize about it.

Even though Poe was something of a "mixed bag" (a critic once said of him that he was "three-fifths genius and two-fifths sheer fudge") his best tales are still intimidating narrative achievements. Some of the best are: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Masque of The Red Death", "The Black Cat", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Imp of the Perverse", or "Descent into the Maelström" (to name just a few, of course). To pass away without having read some (if not all) of these masterpieces should be considered as something akin to a deadly sin or a capital offense. Poe was not A short story writer, he was THE short story writer, and many of his tales are still coveted triumphs that many aspirants to penpushers revere and envy. No matter if Poe is not sufficiently appreciated in America (is that really so?), here in Europe we'll be extremely pleased to give him a home. As a matter of fact I'd even contribute tax money to build him a public statue if I was asked to. The good moments that his best works have given me make him deserving of that. No other American writer has been so influential or has achieved so great a renown worldwide (especially in Europe and South America). Compared to his, the work of other writers like Mark Twain or William Faulkner strike me as "period pieces" and "local colour narratives".

Among all the various editions readily available compiling the entire Works of Edgar Allan Poe, this omnibus by "Doubleday Publishing" is perhaps the best option for your money. It includes both his entire poetry and short fiction, as well as his only novel (`The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'); it is also reasonably priced and the book is quite compact, without being excessively large or bulky (you are not required to be a weight lifter to read it in bed). The only edition that probably surpasses this one in quality and contents is that published by "The Library of America" (but which is also more expensive). If, like me, you don't care much about Poe's poetry, then "The Complete Stories" by Everyman's Library (ISBN: 978-0679417408) should be a good choice as well. It doesn't really matter as long as people keep reading Poe from time to time and thus maintaining his brilliant legacy alive.

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Robert

The product has less wear than expected

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2022

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one superficial inspection, the book looks in very good condition and appears to be an extensive collection of Poe's work. Just what i wanted.

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Anthony G. Willis

Still the master of mystery and suspense

Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2023

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Well, obviously I'm not gonna critique Poe's story telling! This kindle version is very good with respect to fonts etc. Unfortunately there's another kindle version which is basically unreadable due to (probably) unicode or font errors.

dioj3828

Very enjoyable book.

Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2022

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Bought it after watching Netflix's Wednesday. Enjoyed it very much.
Book is well made, pages are thick enough, size of the text is acceptable.

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Anon

Great book. Highly recommended

Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2021

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Yes the book is great. It’s got everything you need Poe. Print is not too large, not too small. It’s perfect for the reader of the macabre

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Poe shall reign

Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2016

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Fantastic collection of Edgar Allan Poe's work. Great to have on the coffee table or around the house whenever you wanted a quick read. Has poems and short stories and always riveting and beautiful pieces of work.

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Lorraine Dmitrovic

Great edition of Poe's Complete Stories and Poems

Reviewed in Canada on August 12, 2016

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Excellent hardcover book of Poe's complete works. Looking forward to reading (and re-reading those already read years ago) all his classic wondrous and sometimes dark tales and poems.

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