Edgar Allen Poe

This anthology gathers over 20 of Poeâ??s groundbreaking tales of the macabre and also includes his trilogy of stories featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic best known for his gothic short stories and poetry. TALES OF MYSTERY & MACABRE is a collection of his best known writings, accompanied by illustrations and publication notes. It's the perfect edition for readers just discovering Poe's distinguished body of work, as well as those wishing to revisit the mysterious and terrifying writings of an American master.

Follow a young man's journey through love, loss, and growing old. This beautifully rendered vision connects Edgar Allen Poe's last poem with one of his earliest works through illustration. Put one of America's greatest poets into young hands and hearts with words and images that draw in all lovers of beauty through pictures and prose.

Edgar Allen Poe was central to the American romantic movement in literature, as both a poet and a writer of fiction. He was one of the inventors of the horror story and of the mystery story. "The Raven," written in 1845, was his most successful poem. His father abandoned his family at the time of his birth, and his mother died when he was one year old: his difficult childhood and the financial difficulties that came from supporting himself purely by writing undoubtedly contributed to the overwrought emotional tone of his writing. He died in 1849, at the age of 40, after he was found wandering the streets of Baltimore in a delirium, wearing clothing that was not his own and talking incoherently. The cause of his death is not known. Gustave Dor was an artist, sculptor, and one of the greatest book illustrators of the nineteenth century, famous for his illustrations of Don Quixote, the Bible, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Paradise Lost, Idylls of the King, the Divine Comedy, and other books. A New York Published paid him 30,000 Francs for his illustrations for "The Raven," which was published in 1884. France made him a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1861. He died at the age of 51 in 1883. Poe's writing and Dor 's illustrations make this work one of the most beautiful books of the nineteenth century. This edition reproduces the cover and title page of the first American edition, as well as reproducing all of Dor 's illustrations. Unlike other editions, this edition includes the entire text of the poem on the pages facing the appropriate illustrations, so you can read Poe's poem while enjoying Dor 's art. NOTE: The reviews of this book on amazon and the links to other formats apply to all editions of "The Raven," not to this edition. Amazon will not unlink this edition's page from other editions without written authorization from the author - which is a bit hard to get from someone who has been dead for over a century and a half.

The Raven is a narrative poem, it is often noted for musical, stylized, with a supernatural feel. A raven tells of the mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The lover, is identified as being a student, is grieving the loss of his love, Lenore. On a bust of Pallas, the raven sits, seeming to further aggravate his anguish with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". This version of The Raven has twenty-nine illustrations and punctuation added for ease of reading. Finally, a detailed author's biography. The poem is accompanied by the illustrations, then stands alone, final comments about the poem in detail. With the analyzed Reading Level of 5.2, due to the orphaned wording of the past and poetic license.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe, Illustrated by Harry Clarke and Other, Volume One. This is the first volume of a series of full-color editions of Edgar Allen Poe's works illustrated by Harry Clarke and the mysterious Other. The six stories in this volume are; Ligeia, Morella, Berenice, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death and Metzengerstein. Irish-born illustrator Harry Clarke, (1889 - 1931) did a series of now-famous illustrations for Poe's stories in 1923. Each story in this volume includes the Harry Clarke illustration in sharp reproduction, as well as additional illustrations by Other.

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisi me, No. 33, Rue Dun t, Faubourg St. Germain. For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence; while each, to any casual observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with the curling eddies of smoke that oppressed the atmosphere of the chamber. For myself, however, I was mentally discussing certain topics which had formed matter for conversation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue, and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Rog t. I looked upon it, therefore, as something of a coincidence, when the door of our apartment was thrown open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G-, the Prefect of the Parisian police.