Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

Product Description
This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe s well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some of his timeless masterpieces namely Annabel Lee , The Raven , To Helen , MS. Found in a Bottle , The Fall of the House of Usher , The Murders in the Rue Morgue , The Tell-Tale Heart and the The Gold-Bug among others. Also included are his seminal essays, Poe s review of the Twice-Told Tales, and a selection of his letters written to the editors of periodicals, his friends, his wife and to Mrs. Whitman. An editorial note precedes each work. This deluxe edition is perfect as a keepsake.
About the Author
One of the most Gothic short story writers of the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe was a predominant figure of the Romantic movement in American literature and is regarded as the inventor of the detective story. His literary career began with Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) but it was his deftly plotted short stories which attracted attention. He was also a noticeable literary critic and an unwearying reviewer and essayist. The recurring themes in his works the death of women, bereavement, horror, madness, premature burial, decay, revival of the dead, life after death are suggested to have resulted from his own life, which was a sequence of tragic events and frequent abandonments. Poe skillfully weaved these themes into his meticulous plots and created the macabre world of terror and dark romanticism bringing alive the horror through his choice of words. More than a century and a half after Poe s death, his works still remain as fresh and scary, sending a frightening chill down the spines of his readers.