Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has acquired a legendary status as an artist who was a love failure and an obsessive outsider. His terrifying ideas, which are the result of cold creative calculation, expose some of the sinister potentials of the human condition. However, his immense fame and his ongoing effect on literature are less due to mythology or vision than due to his technical prowess as a writer.
This book assembles Poe’s poems, stories, and sketches as well as his larger fiction and essays on poetry and literature. It also provides a biography of Poe as well as details on his writing.
Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays by Edgar Allan Poe
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It’s a wonderfully designed book with lovely paper and strong binding. The editorial decisions were wise. All of Poe’s poems, short stories, his lone novel (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym), and the majority of his criticism and essays are collected in one collection. Which is fantastic because readers can jump in wherever they wish and observe as Poe takes an idea and develops it through many genres, such as gothic romance, satire, and science fiction. The restlessness of his creation is captured in the novel.
Poe frequently balances dread and absurdity in his stories. The conflict between how the haughty, learned narrator wants to depict himself and what readers can discern despite his best attempts is more interesting than the crime itself.
This is really the only one you acquire if you want a complete Poe. It’s fantastic to have a portable, reasonably priced copy of this edition. This collection of some of his best work is unquestionably affordable, enjoyable, and deserving.
