Description
| Product ID: | 9780143039914 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Portable Edgar Allan Poe |
| Authors: | Author: Edgar Allan Poe |
| Page Count: | 672 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery. This volume also 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-09-28 |
