For Poe fans worldwide, this stunning gift edition features a gorgeous deckled edge, ribbon marker, and foil and deboss details on a vibrantly coloured case.

Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families.The Gold-Bug” concerns the hunt for a buried treasure, the secret location of which is revealed in a coded map. The melancholy tone really sticks with you (once again demonstrating my love for any writing related to grief and loss). Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. This collection brings together more than fifty of Edgar Allan Poe’s most important stories, poems, and critical writings, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American Literature, in a single accessible volume.

It is pain, despair, melancholy and a spiritual death all rolled into one haunting feathery package. When divorced from his single-minded prosody, Poe's mastery of the language elegantly serves the needs of mood, characterization, and action. Red Death is an absolute banger of a story, Pit and the Pendulum is white-knuckle intensity, these hold up so well. It is the center of the Maelstrom like in the story of that name, one considered an early work of science fiction. As a young man, he developed problems with gambling, debts, and alcohol, and was even dismissed from the army.Nothing could lessen the blow of her death; nothing could take the pain away of her upcoming demise: nothing could save his mind in a world without her. But it also helps to understand the Post-Modernist preoccupation with maximalism, with size or length or quantity over subject or merit or quality. An essential resource for students and teachers of Poe, this book includes stories such as ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, and ‘The Purloined Letter’ as well as his Gothic narrative poem ‘The Raven’ and some of his most significant critical writings.