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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, 1902
- Form
- Form Collection
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Moderate
- Reading time
- Reading time 5.5 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 8
- Length
- Length 78k words
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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial.
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About the book
A man is led down into the catacombs by an enemy who has poured him too much wine, the bricks already mortared in his future, the carnival rising overhead. Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849; this single volume, first compiled in 1902, gathers in one binding the tales and the poems on which the American gothic was founded. Here are the cracking house of Usher, the beating heart beneath the floorboards, the swinging pendulum in the Inquisition's pit, the masque interrupted by the red plague, and the orangutan in the Rue Morgue. Here too are the raven on the chamber door, Annabel Lee in her sepulchre by the sea, and Ulalume's misted October wood. The whole volume is one long threnody for what cannot be buried.