Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque : (2 volumes, 25 stories)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Contents

Vol. I
"Morella"
"Lionizing"
"William Wilson"
"The Man That Was Used Up � A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Duc de L'Omelette"
"MS. Found in a Bottle"
"Bon-Bon"
"Shadow � A Parable"
"The Devil in the Belfry"
"Ligeia"
"King Pest � A Tale Containing an Allegory"
"The Signora Zenobia"
"The Scythe of Time"

Vol. II
"Epimanes"
"Siope"
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall"
"A Tale of Jerusalem"
"Von Jung"
"Loss of Breath"
"Metzengerstein"
"Berenice"
"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling"
"The Visionary"
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion"
"Appendix" (to be appended to the "Hans Pfaall" story.

� Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605018270
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Mobi Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	426 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.