Masters of prose - Edgar Allan Poe

Poe, Edgar Allan (Autor), Nemo, August (Editor)

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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.

This edition is dedicated to the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. 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.

This book contains the following writings:

Short Stories: The Tell-Tale Heart; The Cask of Amontillado; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Black Cat; The investigations of C. Auguste Dupin; Ligeia; King Pest; The Devial in the Belfry; The Man that was used up; The Gold Bug; Four Beasts In One – The Homo Cameleopard; The Balloon Hoax; Ms. Found In A Bottle; The Oval Portrait

Biographical: Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Rufus Wilmot Griswold; Edgar Poe and his Critics by Sarah Helen Whitman; Death of Edgar A. Poe by N. P. Willis.

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