Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 9/1/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program
A compact selection of Poe’s greateststories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Readprogram.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famouslychilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fallof the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,”and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poeis widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “ThePurloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays outhis theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” asan example.
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