Edgar Allan Poe Collection

This Excellent Collection brings together Edgar Allan Poe's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books, Short Stories, Poetries, Essays and Biographies. These Books created and collected in Poe's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XIX and XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.



This Collection included:



Short Stories

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

The Purloined Letter

The Gold-Bug

Thou Art the Man

The Man of the Crowd

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Cask of Amontillado

The Black Cat

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

Ligeia

The Oval Portrait (Life in Death)

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

Eleonora

A Dream

Metzengerstein

The Assignation

Berenice

Morella

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

William Wilson

The Imp of the Perverse

Hop-Frog (Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs)

The Light-House

Ms. Found in a Bottle

A Descent into the Maelstrom

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Balloon-Hoax

Mesmeric Revelation

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

Some Words with a Mummy

Mystification

The Premature Burial

The Oblong Box

The Spectacles

The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether

The Sphinx

The Island of the Fay

The Landscape Garden

Morning on the Wissahiccon

The Domain of Arnheim

Landor's Cottage

The Duc de l'Omelette

A Tale of Jerusalem

Loss of Breath (A Decided Loss)

Bon-Bon (The Bargain Lost)

Lionizing

King Pest

Four Beasts in One (The Homo-Cameleopard)

How to Write a Blackwood Article

A Predicament (The Scythe of Time)

The Devil in the Belfry

The Man That Was Used Up

The Business Man (Peter Pendulum)

Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Three Sundays in a Week (A Succession of Sundays)

Diddling (Raising the Wind)

The Angel of the Odd

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

Mellonta Tauta

Von Kempelen and His Discovery

X-ing a Paragrab

The Power of Words

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

The Colloquy of Monos and Una

Shadow

Silence



Novels

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Journal of Julius Rodman

Poetical Works

The Raven

Poems of Later Life

Poems of Manhood

Scenes from Politian

Poems of Youth

Doubtful Poems

Other Poems



Play

Politian



Essays

The Philosophy of Composition

The Rationale of Verse

The Poetic Principle

Old English Poetry

Essays of Criticism

Essays on American Literature

A Few Words on Secret Writing

Maelzel's Chess Player

Eureka: A Prose Poem



Other Essays



Other Works

The Literati of New York

Autography

A Chapter on Autography

A Chapter on Science and Art

Fifty Suggestions

Pinakidia

Omniana

Doings of Gotham



Letters

Memorandum (Autobiographical Essay)

Biography

The Dreamer by Mary Newton Stanard



Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.



Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as Poe and John Allan repeatedly clashed over Poe's debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of Poe's education. Poe attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money. He quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the United States Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time that his publishing career began with the anonymous collection Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife in 1829. Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and he ultimately parted ways with Allan.



Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. He married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, in 1836, but Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but before it could be produced, he died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at age 40. The cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, suicide, and other causes.

Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.