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The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from ...Show more
The Pit and the Pendulum : The Essential Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Fiction
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by ...Show more
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Poetry
This magnificently decorated edition presents Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" and "The Bells," the book meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition. Poe's dark obsessions and fascinatio ...Show more
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum,""The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this v ...Show more
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the poet of the night world, of the inexplicable, the uncanny. His poems do not analyse, they do not explain: they exist with the intensity of hallucinations. In the breathtakingly seductive beauty of 'To Helen' - 'Like those Nicean barks of yore, /that gently o'er a per ...Show more
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, this gothic poem is narrated by a melancholy scholar who is lamenting Lenore, a woman he loved and lost. One bleak December midnight a raven shows up at his door - with only one thing to say, ...Show more
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe + Gustave Dore (illust)
Category: Classic Fiction
All 27 of Dore's masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of Poe's celebrated poem. Apposite quotations from the poem printed on facing pages; complete text also included. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Raven: A Pop-Up Book by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: 9 – 12 years old
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door ...Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is one of the most widely recog ...Show more
The Raven (Visions in Poetry) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Picture Books | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. The fifth book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the poem is n ...Show more
The Raven and Other Favorite Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift
Over 40 of the author's most memorable poems: "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado," "Annabel Lee," many more. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Poetry
Lamenting the loss of a gentle but passionate woman, the narrator drinks, yet somberly dwells on her name. A local raven, with the capacity to utter like a parrot a syllable or two, repeats "Lenore," and "Nevermore." The narrator, tired and broken, believes the raven might be sent by God or even by the ...Show more