The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 7190 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Works of Edgar Allan Poe • The Raven • The Fall of the House of Usher • Famous Modern Ghost Stories • The Poetical Works • The Cask of Amontillado • The Masque of the Red Death • Eureka: A Prose Poem • The Short-story • Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales • Figures of Several CenturiesArthur Symons • Alone • A Dream within a Dream • The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal • The Gold-Bug • Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • The Mystery of Marie Roget • The Balloon-Hoax • Ms. Found in a Bottle • The Oval Portrait • The Purloined Letter • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade • A Descent into the Maelström • Von Kempelen and His Discovery • Mesmeric Revelation • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • The Black Cat • The Fall of the House of Usher • Silence—A Fable • The Masque of the Red Death • The Cask of Amontillado • The Imp of the Perverse • The Island of the Fay • The Assignation • The Pit and the Pendulum • The Premature Burial • The Domain of Arnheim • Landor's Cottage • William Wilson • The Tell-Tale Heart • Berenice • Eleonora • Notes to This Volume • Notes—Scheherazade • Notes—Maelstrom • Notes—Island of the Fay • Notes—Domain of Arnheim • Notes—Berenice • Narrative of A. Gordon Pym • Ligeia • Morella • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • The Spectacles • King Pest • Three Sundays in a Week • The Devil in the Belfry • Lionizing • X-ing a Paragraph • Metzengerstein • The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether • How to Write a Blackwood Article • A Predicament • Mystification • Diddling • The Angel of the Odd • Mellonta Tauta • The Duc De L'Omelette • The Oblong Box • etc.

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.