Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (PDF)

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A Complete Collection of Classic PoeCollected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe—all of his tales and poems in one convenient, easy-to-use volume at a fantastic price.Included in Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems are:• The complete text of all of the tales and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe (over 125 works), each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader.• Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the poems and tales in this collection.• An individual, active Table of Contents for each section accessible from the Kindle “go to” feature.• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.• A low, can’t-say-no price!The Complete Tales and PoemsAll of Poe’s tales, poems, and essays are included—over 125 works. Some of the most notable are:Tales:• “The Fall of the House of Usher”• “The Masque of the Red Death”• “The Pit and the Pendulum”• “The Premature Burial”• “The Purloined Letter”• “The Tell-Tale Heart”Poems:• “Annabel Lee”• “The Bells”• “The City in the Sea”• “A Dream Within a Dream”• “To Helen”• “Lenore”• “The Raven”• “Ulalume”Other Works:• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket—Poe’s only complete novel• Collected EssaysAdditional Fan ResourcesAlso included are special features for any Poe enthusiast, including:• A list of films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.• A Reading Guide to fictional works that feature the historical Edgar Allan Poe as a character.• Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the major poems and short stories in this collection.

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⭐The enjoyment to read Poe and O Henry is an unexpected result of the story. There is an unexpected surprise in their short story.I never even dreamed that the story of the gold-bug connects with the unexcavated money of .a pirate.I read “The murders in the Rue Morgue” and I never even dreamed the criminal is the orangutang .There is an unexpected surprise in “The Last leaf” of O henry story. I never even dreamed that a leaf which helped a deathly girl is the masterpiece of the painter who dropped out.I think that the words concerning the intelligence in Poe’s “ the purloined letter “ has important hints that solve the puzzle of the surprise.The excellent police overlooked that the purloined letter is in the letter rack of the house of criminal. I think this truth applies to the most modern intelligence . For example we think we can understand the life in the science sooner or later.Maybe we think we can understand the mystery of the universe.I respect the scientist,but I think the above-mentioned idea is a mistake.Because Poe writes about the pitfall of intelligence.I introduce the sentence of Poe in the following.His idea is gifted.【 “And the identification,” I said, “ of the reasoner’s intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent’s intellect is admeasured. ““ For its practical value it depends upon this, “ replied Dupin; “ and the Prefect and his cohort fail so frequently, first , by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admesasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged.They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity; and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it.They are right in this much―that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them , of course.This always happens when it is above their own, and very usually when it is below.They have no variation of principle in their investigations; at best, when urged by some unusual emergency ―by some extraordinary reward―they extend or exaggerate their old modes of practice, without touching their principles.What, for example, in this case of D―, has been done to vary the principle of action?What is all this boring, and probing, and sounding, and scrutinizing with the microscope and dividing the surface of the building into registered square inches― what is it all but an exaggeration of application of the one principle or set of principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity, to which the Prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has been accustomed?Do you not see he has taken it for granted that all men proceed to conceal a letter, ―not exactly in a gimlet hole bored in a chair-leg―but, at least, in some out-of-the-way hole or corner suggested by the same tenor of thought which would urge a man to secrete a letter in a gimlet-hole bored in a chir-leg?And do you not see also, that such recherches nooks for concealment are adapted only for ordinary occasions, and would be adopted only by ordinary intellects;For, in all cases of concealment, a disposal of the article concealed―a disposal of it in this recherché manner, ― is, in the very first instance, presumable and presumed; and thus its discovery depends, not at all upon the acumen, but altogether upon the mere care, patience, and determination of the seeks; and where the care is of importance―or, what amounts to the same thing in the policial eyes, when the reward is of magnitude,― the qualities in question have never been known to fail. You will now understand what I meant in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden any where within the limits of the Prefect’s examination―in other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the Prefect―its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question.This functiononary, however, has been thoroughly mystified;“ I mean to say, “ continued Dupin, while I merely laughed at his last observations, “ that if the Minister had been no more than a mathematician, the Prefect would have been under no necessity of giving me this check.I know him , however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded.I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant.Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary policial modes of action.He could not have failed to anticipate―and events have proved that he did not fail to anticipate－the waylayings to which he was subjected. He must have foreseen, I reflected, the secret investigations of his premises.His frequent absences from home at night, which were hailed by the Prefect as certain aids to his success, I regarded only as ruses, to afford opportunity for thorough search to the police, and thus the sooner to impress them with the conviction to which G-, in fact , did finally arrive – the conviction that the letter was not upon the premises.I felt, also, that the whole train of thought, which I was at some pains in detailing to you just now, concerning the invariable principle of policial action in searches for articles concealed―I felt that this whole train of thought would necessarily pass through the mind of the Minister.“But the more I reflected upon the daring, dashing, and discriminating ingenuity of D―; upon the fact that the document must always have been at hand, if he intended to use it to good purpose; and upon the decisive evidence , obtained by the Prefect, that it was not hidden within the limits of that dignitary’s ordinarysearch―the more satisfied I became that , to conceal this letter , the Minister had resorted to the comprehensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.“For of these ideas, I prepared myself with a pair of green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by accident, at the Ministerial hotel.I found D―at home, yawning,lounging, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui.He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being now alive―but that is only when nobody sees him.“ To be even with him, I complained of my weak eyes, and lamented the necessity of the spectacles, under cover of which I cautiously and thoroughly surveyed the whole apartment, while seemingly intent only upon the conversation of my host.“ I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books.Here, however, after a long and very deliberate scrutiny, I saw nothing to excite particular suspicion.“ At length my eyes, in going the circuit of the room, fell upon a trumpery fillagree card-rack of pasteboard, that hung dangling by a dirty blue ribbon, from a little brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantle-peace.In this rack, which had three or four compartments, were five or six visiting cards and a solitary letter.This last was much soiled and crumpled.It was torn nearly in two , across the middle―as if a design , in the first instance, to tear it entirely up as worthless, had been altered, or stayed, in the second. 】

⭐It took a little longer to receive than expected. The book was in beautiful condition and the dust jacket was completely intact!

⭐This was originally reviewed (along with every single story inside this anthology) over at alex-hurst.com, in the series “Tackling Poe”. Naturally, to leave a review of everything here would be far too long!I finished reading Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems about a week ago, but I wanted to give myself some time to digest everything, watch The Raven, and to formulate my final thoughts.To start off, I think that––overall––this collection was fairly good. I did have some issues with it, as I’ve talked about before in some of the earlier parts of this massive review series. I really didn’t like that each story was just a sub-chapter of a larger heading, and formatted in a way that you couldn’t keep track of how much time was left in each segment (I often use this when I’m trying to justify staying up late or reading more during a break), and there were a few incorrectly classed pieces under the Essays section.The compiler of the work did do a very good job formatting the poetry and fiction prose. They used true type, so even on the Kindle, it made for very lovely reading. Little embellishments, like unique titles, made the anthology look more polished.I would have liked to have seen more context notes, because some of the stories and poems made a great deal more sense with the context I was able to glean from the internet (after only moderate searching). Since all of Edgar Allan Poe’s works are public domain, and free, I expect more of an anthology, in this regard. In many cases, the poetry or fiction notes that Edgar Allan Poe wrote to his editors at the time were not included with the stories, to the detriment of quite a few of them.However, I know that to compile and format an anthology of this size and breadth is near impossible to do without some technical errors, and as most of my complaints were merely stylistic and subjective, I can recommend this anthology to most readers. Nothing will compare, I think, to seeing Poe’s works on paper (and being able to find quotes at a glance), but this is a close second. The section in the back which lists references to derivative or inspired works was very interesting. Much respect to Maplewood Books.The anthology is a beast, totaling over 407,000 words total.Now that I’m finally at the end of the collection, I would like to offer a list of recommendations. I’ll choose ten of his “classics”, ten “unknowns”, and fifteen poems which I do not think are well-known (of course everyone knows to read “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “Lenore”, and so on). All of these are entirely subjective, but I think if you read nothing else but some of the thirty five I suggest here, you’ll have fairly good luck in reading something you’ll enjoy. They are in no particular order.The Classics:1. The Fall of the House of Usher2. The Black Cat3. A Descent into Maelström4. The Gold-Bug5. The Oval Portrait6. The Cask of Amontillado7. The Pit and the Pendulum8. Ligeia9. The Tell-Tale Heart10. BereniceRelatively Unknowns:1. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar2. Loss of Breath3. William Wilson4. The Premature Burial5. King Pest6. The Spectacles7. The Business Man8. The System of Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether9. The Colloquy of Monos and Una10. The Power of WordsPoems:1. The City in the Sea2. Eldorado3. For Annie4. The Bells5. The Conqueror Worm6. The Haunted Palace7. In Youth I Have Known One8. Imitation9. The Valley of Unrest10. Tamerlane11. Sonnet – To Science12. The Forest Reverie13. The Village Street14. Alone15. Israfel

⭐This is a great collection for Poe completists as it has a whole lot of stories which you probably won’t have heard of. Did you realise, for example, that there exists a companion piece to Murders in the Rue Morgue? It soon becomes obvious why, unlike classics such as Pit and the Pendulum, Tell Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher and so on, these lesser stories have not stood the test of time – they are generally pretty weak and often rely up preposterously dated and laughable science. However as the complete output of a compelling writer who tightroped the border between genius and madness everything within is of interest.

⭐EA Poe is so classic and I love his thinking.As he is an American author, maybe not a lot of people in England seem to know much about him, however, it’s well worth a read, I highly recommend.A musical album entitled Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project, British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, was based on this collection of Poe’s works and borrowed its title. It contains individual scores based on some of these tales, including narration by Orson Welles. Parsons also used the title “The Gold Bug” for a track on his The Turn of a Friendly Card album. I highly recommend this music, too…

⭐Overall unimpressed with this edition- I bought it to have a copy for annotation of the pieces I’m using in my dissertation, only to find that not all of them were in this book (namely, ‘Ligeia’ and ‘William Willson’). On top of this, the table of contents does not list the short stories/ poems- it instead lists ‘volumes’. So I had to go through the entire book (several times to be sure) to discover that it didn’t include the pieces I was after. On the whole I found this edition misleading and poorly structured, I plan on returning it.

⭐A very nice collection of the great mans works there are better editions available granted but they come at a dearer price and of what I have seen of them the paper they are printed on are more delicate which is fine if like me you are a collector of fine books but with this edition for every day use this is more robust and you might not mind to much if it got worn a bit which would still be a shame but with more collectors editions would be a great shame so for the price and so forth this is a good example.

⭐I always enjoyed Edgar Allan Poe when at school and after watching that dreadful series The Following which, I feel portrayed Poe incredibly negatively (and which was utterly unrealistic to boot!) I felt like I wanted to revisit the classic collection. Often considered a dark and morbid writer, if one takes the time to read each story or poem you can as my old English Lit teacher always said, see the cautionary element. Not a children’s bedtime story compilation, but certainly a collection of incredible work by an incredibly talented author.

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