The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe’s poems and short stories, including ’The Cask of Amontillado, ’ ’The Tell-Tale Heart, ’ ’The Fall of the House of Usher, ’ ’The Murders in the Rue Morgue, ’ ’The Black Cat, ’ and ’The Raven’ as well as two illuminating essays on the nature of poetry and the art of storytelling. Sweeping yet concise, this new edition offers an engaging introduction written specifically for contemporary readers, pivotal excerpts from French poet Charles Baudelaire’s path-breaking essays on Poe, and a detailed biographical timeline of Poe’s brief, turbulent life.
Innehållsförteckning
Contents
Introduction by Ulrich Baer
TALES
TERROR
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
Hop-Frog
EXPERIMENTS
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Some Words with a Mummy
FANTASTIC TALES
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
MYSTERIES AND DETECTIVE STORIES
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Gold-Bug
The Purloined Letter
EVIL AND PERVERSITY
The Man That Was Used Up
The Black Cat
The Imp of the Perverse
The Cask of Amontillado
POEMS
Lenore
The Raven
Ulalume-A Ballad
The Bells
Annabel Lee
Critical Writings
The Object of Poetry
’The Philosophy of Composition’
Charles Baudelaire on Edgar Allan Poe
Biographical Timeline
A Note on the Text
Om författaren
Ulrich Baer holds a BA from Harvard and a Ph D from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has written numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics, and edited and translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists to talk about big ideas and great books on the Think About It podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love.
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