Poems -Evening Star -Fairy-Land -Lenore -The City in the Sea -The Valley of Unrest -The Raven -Ulalume: A Ballad -Annabel Lee -The Bells -AlonRecommended Works:
Poems -Evening Star -Fairy-Land -Lenore -The City in the Sea -The Valley of Unrest -The Raven -Ulalume: A Ballad -Annabel Lee -The Bells -Alone
Tales -The Fall of the House of Usher -The Masque of the Red Death -The Pit and the Pendulum -The Tell-Tale Heart -The Cask of Amontillado
Some fantastic work, alot of parody and detective work I couldn't care less for, but having some of these greatest-of-greats works in such a beautiful book is worth the package, and let me leave you with a quote from one of his letters.....
"Your kind invitation to dinner today has wounded me to the quick. I cannot come--and for reasons of the most humiliating nature--my personal appearance. .... If you will be my friend so far as to loan me $20 {~$720 USD 2024}, I will call on you to-morrow..."
[there is a typo in "A Tell Tale Heart" that goes as follows, " I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eve." instead of "upon the eye" .... I've been told this is likely because they scanned the books and let a computer copy it by eye, ironically enough. ...more