Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smith’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the novels and short stories, with individual contents tables
* Rare uncollected stories, often missed out of collections
* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes rare poems – available in no other collection
* Also features Poe’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence
* Special criticism section, with 8 essays evaluating Poe’s contribution to American literature
* Every non-fiction essay, including rare and disputed essays
* Features 9 biographies – discover Poe’s mysterious life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
* UPDATED with more essays, biographies and critical evaluations
* All texts thoroughly revised
Contents:
The Novels
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)
The Short Story Collections
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1839)
The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)
Tales (1845)
Uncollected Tales
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
The Play
Politian (1835)
The Poetry Collections
Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)
Poems, 1831
The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
Uncollected Poems
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Non-Fiction
The Conchologist’s First Book (1839)
The Literati of New York City (1846)
Eureka (1848)
Uncollected Essays
The Letters
The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
The Criticism
Edgar A. Poe (1845) by James Russell Lowell
Edgar Poe and his Critics (1860) by Sarah Helen Whitman
To Edgar Allan Poe (1886) by Andrew Lang
Edgar Allan Poe (1906) by Arthur Symons
The Unique Genius of Poe’s Poetry (1910) by Oliver Huckel
The Centenary of Edgar Allan Poe (1919) by Edmund Gosse
The Fall of the House of Usher (1920) by William B. Cairns
The Raven (1920) by Edward Everett Hale
The Biographies
Memoir of the Author (1850) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Death of Edgar A. Poe (1850) by N. P. Willis
The Story of Edgar Allan Poe (1899) by Sherwin Cody
The Home Life of Poe (1907) by Susan Archer Talley Weiss
The Dreamer (1909) by Mary Newton Stanard
A Sketch of the Life of Edgar Allan Poe (1910) by Mrs John C. Wrenshall
Edgar Allan Poe (1911) by David McDowall Hannay
Edgar Allan Poe (1920) by Emilie Watts McVea
Poe (1921) by Killis Campbell
