The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

by Harold Beaver
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Harold Beaver
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2006-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141922060
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One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall' relates a man's balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', while the great essay 'Eureka' outlines Poe's own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the genealogy of science fiction, or to understand the complexity of Poe's own creative vision

Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Top Five Books LLC
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2013-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938938100
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This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of the Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features 75 of Poe’s greatest short stories and poems. 33 Tales, including: • The Tell-Tale Heart • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Masque of the Red Death • The Pit and the Pendulum • The Purloined Letter • The Black Cat • Hop-Frog • The Cask of Amontillado 42 Poems, including: • The Raven • The Conqueror Worm • The Bells • Tamerlane • Al Aaraaf • Lenore • Eldorado • Annabel Lee Also featuring: • More than 85 large illustrations from Gustave Doré, Harry Clarke, and Edmund Dulac • Annotated translations of passages in French, Latin, Greek or other foreign languages, along with Poe’s own notes • Alphabetical, linked title index and detailed author biography Whether you are new to Edgar Allan Poe or a student of his work, this illustrated/annotated edition is a must-have for your ebook library. (For a comprehensive collection of 157 Poe works, see Top Five Classics’ Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems.)

Mrs. Poe

by Lynn Cullen
Mrs. Poe
Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476702918
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

Literary Theory and Criticism

by Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Theory and Criticism
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780486401553
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Essential anthology of Poe's critical works reviews works by Dickens, Hawthorne, many others. Includes Theory of Poetry ("The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," "The Poetic Principle"). Introduction.

Poe's Fiction

by G R Thompson
Poe's Fiction
Author: G R Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780984654345
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This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe
The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1976
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780252061257
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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brings together, in one convenient edition, all of the information a reader needs to understand Poe's stories. Readable, attractive, and accessible to a general reader or student, it also provides a useful resource for the scholar and specialist. Stuart Levine and Susan Levine tracked down information that is often highly specialized and hard to come by through an extensive program of literary sleuthing--an investigation that took him through the hundreds of places where scholars make their contributions to knowledge.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2024-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6561332016
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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.

Tamerlane and Other Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre:
ISBN: 0557239257
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Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist. The poems were largely inspired by Lord Byron, including the long title poem "Tamerlane", which depicts a historical conqueror who laments the loss of his first romance. Like much of Poe's future work, the poems in Tamerlane and Other Poems include themes of love, death, and pride.

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2024-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 658593413X
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.