A Collection of Short-Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Frank R. Stockton

Overview

The book, “A Collection of Short-Stories,” originally published in 1914, contains samples from such master storytellers as Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson, also Björnstjerne Björnson, Frank R. Stockton and Guy de Maupassant. Edited by Lemuel Arthur “L.A.” Pittenger, a famous Indiana educator and president of Ball State University, the volume is extensively footnoted for study purposes and contains an introductory presentation on the history of the short-story, its qualities and composition, along with lists of books for reference and related readings.  
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791221350142
Publisher:	Word Well Books
Publication date:	06/08/2022
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	853 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.