Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems - among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" - reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.
Author
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed originator of the detective story. His brilliant, imaginative sleuth C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding investigators like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. This audio collection of Poe's three Dupin stories also includes one non-Dupin detective tale, "Thou Art the Man." It features celebrity narrator Bronson Pinchot. The story titles are: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Description
As unquestioned master of the "grotesque", early 19th century writer Edgar Allan Poe is fully represented in this classic collection originally published under the title Selected Writings. David Galloway's introduction reveals Poe not only as a complex personality and one of America's most exotic writers, but also as an individual who engaged in an astonishing variety of interests.
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ten selections represented in this recording pursue similar themes of death, ghostly reappearance, being buried alive, and other forms of mental and physical torture. They remain curiously effective even in the 21st century, when it could be presumed that the excessive style would lose its power to shock or move -- in th manner of an ornate Victorian graveyard.
Author
Series
Essential poets ; 14
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirty-two poems by the American author, including a letter and essay discussing the art of poetry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems is the work of a master, and includes "The Raven," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee." One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe's poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the nineteenth century.
HarperPerennial...
Author
Series
Publisher
Webster Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1947]
Language
English
Description
William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a bug appearing to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit him at his home on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. Upon the narrator's arrival, Legrand informs him that they are embarking upon a search for lost treasure along with his African-American servant Jupiter. The narrator has intense doubt and...
92) Poetry and tales
Author
Series
Library of America ; 19
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Preface (Tamerlane and other poems 1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).
Author
Series
Library of America ; 20
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc. A valuable tool for anyone studying Poe and his work.