Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Hardcover, 821 pages

English language

Published Aug. 15, 1984 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-07407-0
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AMONG the great masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe retains his preeminence after more than a century. Ligeia, The Tell- Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado brought the suspense story to a point of artistic perfection not since surpassed. Every sentence carries the reader irresistibly toward a climax which continues to build to the last line, even the final word.

Poe is at the same time the father of another major branch of modern fiction: the detective story. His character Dupin, original exponent of scientific deduction, appeared a generation before Sherlock Holmes, and in Murders in the Rue Morgue Poe created, at the very birth of the genre, one of its greatest master- pieces. Rarely since has the detective story attained the literary distinction which its inventor brought to it.

Besides mystery and suspense, Poe …

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