Selected stories and poems

Creative, sensitive, mercurial - if these words describe the elements of true genius, then Edgar Allan Poe was its tortured personification.Unsurpassed in the artufl fusion of the weird and macabre with the poetic and romantic and in the creation of the incisive, colorful image... Poe's singular talents remain unchallenged. Which was Poe primarily - story writer or poet? The duality of his art is well exemplified by such memorable tales as the foreboding Fall of the House of Usher, the coolly logical Purloined Letter. And who has not been moved by the somber beauty of his poem The Raven, the simplicity and purity of his paean to Helen? The stories and poems selecgted for this volume give a true picture of Poe's artistry and genius.TALESTHE TELL-TALE HEARTTHE CASK OF AMONTILLADOTHE BLACK CATTHE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATHTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHERTHE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE .THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGETTHE PURLOINED LETTERTHE GOLD BUGTHE PIT AND THE PENDULUMPOEMSTHE RAVENLENOREULALUMETHE BELLSANNABEL LEETHE HAUNTED PALACETHE CONQUEROR WORMTHE VALLEY OF UNRESTTHE CITY IN THE SEATHE SLEEPEREULALIEELDORADOISRAFELFOR ANNIETo HELENTo ONE IN PARADISETHE HAPPIEST DAY .

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