| The Portable Edgar Allan Poe Contributor(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (Author), Kennedy, J. Gerald (Editor), Kennedy, J. Gerald (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0143039911 ISBN-13: 9780143039914 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: A fully revised collection of Poes work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the authors familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new "Portable Poe" includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006043297 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (1.00 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random opinions on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |