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"The Raven" is one of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poems, but it is harder to choose his greatest short story. Is it, "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Or, "The Cask of Amontillado"? Or perhaps "The Fall of the House of Usher"? In this collection, you can read "The Raven" and fifteen of Poe's greatest stories, and decide for yourself which is the best. Also included in this volume: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Purloined Letter", "Ms. Found in a Bottle", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Premature Burial", "The Masque of Red Death", "The…mehr

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"The Raven" is one of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poems, but it is harder to choose his greatest short story. Is it, "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Or, "The Cask of Amontillado"? Or perhaps "The Fall of the House of Usher"? In this collection, you can read "The Raven" and fifteen of Poe's greatest stories, and decide for yourself which is the best. Also included in this volume: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Purloined Letter", "Ms. Found in a Bottle", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Premature Burial", "The Masque of Red Death", "The Balloon Hoax", "William Wilson", "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether", and last but not least, "Hop Frog."
Autorenporträt
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Other Books of Author: . The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) . The Raven (1845) . The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) . The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) . The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) . Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) . The Cask of Amontillado (1846) . The Masque of the Red Death (1842) . The Purloined Letter (1844) . A Descent into the Maelström (1841)