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Title: 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, Chandler Brossard, Vincent Price ISBN: 0-440-32227-8 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1983 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tell Tale Heart
Comment: This collection is a wonderful introduction to the master's works. Poe is perhaps one of the most influential writers America has ever produced. Though known mostly as a critic in his own time, his stories were translated into French by the great French Poet, Charles Baudelaire, and thus his reputation started to spread in Europe, where he had a deep effect on writers such as Dickens and Doestoyevsky. And it's no wonder, since his stories are excellently crafted with many layers of subtle psychological meanings. "The Tell Tale Heart" for instance stands out in my mind as one of the penultimate tales of terror that was ever created by his sometimes feverish imagination. It could almost be read as a confession by a madman in an asylum. Then there's the deeply symbolic tale, "The Mosque of the Red Death." A truly moral tale for a man who had a rep for being a drunkard in his own lifetime. Strange, Hemingway, who drank gallons of booze, is never critiqued for this weakness, but poor Poe has suffered for his malady and is not given his proper place in the curriculum of our universities, though now his works are widely read and are being reassessed. For Poe was indeed a great master and perhaps 200 hundred years ahead of his time.
So read Poe - and you'll be equally horrorfied and entertained forevermore!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow, I'm dead!
Comment: I loathe myself, but I do love my books. I even love them more from beyond the grave! Pick up this book and a fifth of whiskey, and you won't be sorry!
Rating: 5
Summary: 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Comment: I enjoyed this book very much. Poe is an excellent short story writer. This stories take you deep into the inner workings of the human mind. It really makes you think. I recemend this for anyone interested in recieving a deep meaning from what they read. These are not happy lovey dovey stories!
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Title: The Raven And Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Phillip Pullman, Edgar Allen Poe, Philip Pullman ISBN: 0439224063 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: 41 Stories by O. Henry by O. Henry, Burton Raffel ISBN: 0451522540 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe ISBN: 0743467469 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers ISBN: 0061043508 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 0553328255 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.90 |
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