The Complete Stories

Informationen zum Autor Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
• Assisted by: Joh Seelye (Editor), John Seelye (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.1992
• EAN: 9781857150995
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-099-5
• No. of pages: 955
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Everyman's library; Everyman's Library; Everyman's Library classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Horror, Classic fiction