| The Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe: Introduction by John Seelye Contributor(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (Author), Seelye, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679417400 ISBN-13: 9780679417408 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre- his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent-in contrast to the opti- mism of writers like Emerson and Whitman- the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92052933 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.78" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (2.01 lbs) 992 pages |
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