Edgar Allan Poe

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (eBook, ePUB)

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship

A collection of the Gothic master's classic works in prose and verse.

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A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information

A chronology of the author's life and work

A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations

Detailed explanatory notes

Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416561903
• Artikelnr.: 39947353

Autorenporträt

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.

Inhaltsangabe

POEMS
The Bells
The City in the Sea
Annabel Lee
Ulalume—A Ballad
To Helen (I)
To Helen (II)
Sonnet—To Science
The Raven
 
TALES
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Purloined Letter
Ligeia
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
William Wilson
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
 
ESSAY
The Philosophy of Composition