COMPLETE TALES / POEMS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE - BRAND NEW!! LEATHER GIFT EDITION!!

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BRAND NEW !!!!! SEALED IN ORIGINAL WRAPPER! THE COMPLETE TALES and POEMS of EDGAR ALLEN POE ~ A Very Gorgeous Leather Gift Edition! ~ ***** Trimmed in Luxurious Silver & Red Inlay! ***** BOOK FEATURES INCLUDE: Silver Gilt End Pages / Silver Satin Book Mark / Raised Hub Spine Leather Cover is Embellished with Silver and Red Inlaid Cover Art!!! A BEAUTIFUL EDITION WORTHY OF A PLACE IN YOUR FINE BOOK COLLECTION! ...YOU WILL BE PROUD TO OWN THIS MASTERPIECE OF LITERARY ART!... Acknowledged as one of the most brilliant and original American writers and the father of the modern short story, Poe and his world of the beautiful and the grotesque, the real and the fantastic, are as powerful today as they were when first conceived........................... Included in this edition are (among many others): POEMS: . The Raven . Annabel Lee . The City in the Sea . The Haunted Palace . The Conqueror Worm . The Bells . Lenore . Tamerlane . A Dream Within a Dream . An Enigma . Dream Land . El Dorado . Alone TALES: . Murders in the Rue Morgue . The Fall of the House of Usher . The Tell-Tale Heart . The Cask of Amontillado . The Pit and the Pendulum . The Purloined Letter . The Devil in the Belfry . The Gold Bug . The Black Cat . The Sphinx . The Masque of the Red Death . The Oblong Box . Ligeia as well as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym", and many, many others! The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe ... introduction by Dawn B. Sova ... over 1040 pages ... and beautiful cover art! SYNOPSIS: Edgar Allen Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the "psychological thriller" and having revolutionized modern poetics, and inventing the modern "detective story". The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language ... transporting his readers to their own "supernatural" realm! This leatherbound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, (68 tales and 47 poems) including "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum". "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Gold Bug", and, the full-length novel "The Narrative of Gordon Pym of Nantucket", and much, much more! This BEAUTIFUL BOOK also includes 13 of Poe's most important critical essays,(including "The Poetic Principal","The Rationale of Verse", and "Letter B"), as well as a selection from "The Marginalia"! BIOGRAPHY: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other poems", in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals of the time. (His personal life was characterized by tumult and passion, as his fortunes plunged and soared over the course of his career). He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833, published his only completed novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and other well-known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of "The Raven and Other Poems" in 1845 brought him additi... read more

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