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Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th-century American sensibility.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have adored Poe since childhood - a love that grew after many viewings of Vincent Prices' Edgar Allan Poe movies!
Only now have I finally acquired Poe's works and boy am I in Heaven! I have this book, and another Amazon acquired book of Poe's stories and poems.
This book is fabulous quality and value for money. Bound in an elegant cloth hardback (a nice fabric marker to boot), on quality paper - this book looks, feels and even smells (yes! Smells!) simply divine. It really does justice to Poe's dark and gothic world of stories and I am so very delighted to have this book - so much so that I have to take it to bed every night for fear of parting with it!
Poe's stories are unchallengeable - even today. They are dark, mysterious and eerie and give such great entertainment.
This collection is both classic and awe inspiring and the publishers have done a very nice job indeed of printing them in this beautiful book.
A massive thanx to Amazon for being so excellent and providing the only means by which I could acquire this gem, as well as most of by book collection.
Get this book - you will not be disappointed.
Only now have I finally acquired Poe's works and boy am I in Heaven! I have this book, and another Amazon acquired book of Poe's stories and poems.
This book is fabulous quality and value for money. Bound in an elegant cloth hardback (a nice fabric marker to boot), on quality paper - this book looks, feels and even smells (yes! Smells!) simply divine. It really does justice to Poe's dark and gothic world of stories and I am so very delighted to have this book - so much so that I have to take it to bed every night for fear of parting with it!
Poe's stories are unchallengeable - even today. They are dark, mysterious and eerie and give such great entertainment.
This collection is both classic and awe inspiring and the publishers have done a very nice job indeed of printing them in this beautiful book.
A massive thanx to Amazon for being so excellent and providing the only means by which I could acquire this gem, as well as most of by book collection.
Get this book - you will not be disappointed.
Format:Hardcover
I've always had a liking for Edgar Allan Poe, with his tales of horror, mystery and suspense, done in the atmospheric prose of a master writer. Since I live close enough, I've even made some trips to his gravesite, a place that is always surrounded by a sense of sadness.
Poe was a tormented genius who died young, under mysterious circumstances, and at the time of his death he wasn't deservingly popular. Certainly his work was not cute romances for the masses -- he explored the darkness of the human heart, love, satire, and the earliest whodunnit stories. And "The Complete Stories" brings together all of his short stories into one volume.
Poe's fiction writings include short stories and novellas, which tend to be rather weird -- a treasure-hunt and a golden insect, a ship caught in a whirlpool, a hypnotized man talks about the universe, and stories of despair, madness, and occasionally beauty. There is also his trilogy of Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin stories, which were the first to feature a brilliant detective solving an impossible crime.
And, of course, the horror. This is what Poe is best known for, including such well-known stories as "The Fall Of The House Of Usher." But there are also lesser-known gems -- tales of a plague invading a party, being buried alive, a portrait that siphoned the life out of its subject, and a nightly visit to an Italian crypt leading to madness.
Don't read "Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories" all at once. It's too intense. It's better to soak it in a little at a time, so that you can get a better feel for the different kinds of writing that Poe did, and how he excelled at pretty much everything he put down on paper. Most great writers can't boast of that much.
Poe's writing is what makes even his least story or poem come alive -- he brought a gothic, misty vibrancy to his stories, and could make his quiet dialogue seem utterly chilling (" "I have no name in the regions which I inhabit. I was mortal, but am fiend..."). It's not hard to see why he was an influence on authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Franz Kafka.
"Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories" is a must-have for anyone with an appreciation for great literature and beautiful, dark writing.
Poe was a tormented genius who died young, under mysterious circumstances, and at the time of his death he wasn't deservingly popular. Certainly his work was not cute romances for the masses -- he explored the darkness of the human heart, love, satire, and the earliest whodunnit stories. And "The Complete Stories" brings together all of his short stories into one volume.
Poe's fiction writings include short stories and novellas, which tend to be rather weird -- a treasure-hunt and a golden insect, a ship caught in a whirlpool, a hypnotized man talks about the universe, and stories of despair, madness, and occasionally beauty. There is also his trilogy of Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin stories, which were the first to feature a brilliant detective solving an impossible crime.
And, of course, the horror. This is what Poe is best known for, including such well-known stories as "The Fall Of The House Of Usher." But there are also lesser-known gems -- tales of a plague invading a party, being buried alive, a portrait that siphoned the life out of its subject, and a nightly visit to an Italian crypt leading to madness.
Don't read "Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories" all at once. It's too intense. It's better to soak it in a little at a time, so that you can get a better feel for the different kinds of writing that Poe did, and how he excelled at pretty much everything he put down on paper. Most great writers can't boast of that much.
Poe's writing is what makes even his least story or poem come alive -- he brought a gothic, misty vibrancy to his stories, and could make his quiet dialogue seem utterly chilling (" "I have no name in the regions which I inhabit. I was mortal, but am fiend..."). It's not hard to see why he was an influence on authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Franz Kafka.
"Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories" is a must-have for anyone with an appreciation for great literature and beautiful, dark writing.
4 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Though my English teacher would assure me that Poe's poetry is painfuly childish, that doesn't stop him from being a good writer. This collected tales brings together some of his best, and darkest pieces, so that all of us can see someone worse of than ourselves...comforting really.
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