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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Selected Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
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Description for The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Selected Stories
Paperback.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES
Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784878511
SKU
9781784878511
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About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.
Reviews for The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Selected Stories
Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges
Observer
His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, ... Read more
Observer
His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, ... Read more