Great Short Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of 40, Poe wrote across several fields during his life, noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem The Raven, and timeless stories like The Tell Tale Heart. In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer. "All of Poe s fiction," Thompson writes, "and the poems as well, can be seen as one coherent piece as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world literature."