Tales and Poems

This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but this volume also contains many overlooked tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes, such as 'The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall', 'Mesmeric Revolution', 'Hop-Frog', and 'The Imp of the Perverse'. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tales and Poems features an afterword by David Pinching. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. Orphaned by the age of three, he was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and was a respected literary critic. In 1836 he married his thirteen year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, whose illness and early death in 1847 is believed to have inspired much of her husband's work. It was only with the publication of his poem 'The Raven' in 1845 that Poe achieved national fame as a writer He died suddenly and mysteriously in 1849, aged just forty.

The Tales Metzengerstein The Visionary or the Assignation Morella King Pest The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall Berenice Mystification How to Write a Blackwood Article A Predicament The Man that was Used Up William Wilson Eleonora The Island of the Fay The Balloon Hoax The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether Mesmeric Revelation A Tale of the Ragged Mountains The Spectacles The Imp of the Perverse The Sphinx The Domain of Arnheim or The Landscape Garden Von Kempelen and His Discovery X-ing a Paragrab Hop-Frog The Poems The Raven Lenore Hymn A Valentine The Coliseum To Helen To - Ulalume The Bells An Enigma Annabel Lee To My Mother The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm To Frances S. Osgood To One in Paradise The Valley of Unrest The City in the Sea The Sleeper Silence A Dream within a Dream Dream-Land To Zante Eulalie Eldorado Israfel For Annie To - Bridal Ballad To F- Afterword Further Reading Biography