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Thirty-Two Stories (Poe) (Hackett Publishing Co.)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780872204980
ISBN: 0872204987
Label: Hackett Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 390
Publication Date: 2000-03
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Studio: Hackett Publishing Company
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America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is because many of Poe's tales depend on knowledge a reader in 1835 or 1845 might have had that a typical reader in 2000 would not. In this extensively annotated and meticulously edited selection of Poe's short fiction, Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine connect Poe to major literary forces of his era and to the rapidly changing U.S. of the 1830s and 1840s, discussing Shelley, Carlyle, Byron, Emerson, and Hawthorne, as well as the railroad, photography, and the telegraph. In the process, they reveal a Poe immersed in the America of his day-its politics, science, technology, best-selling books, biases, arts, journalism, fads, scandals, and even sexual mores-and render accessible all thirty-two stories included here. The general Introduction, the headnote to each story, and the annotations included in this volume have been extensively revised from the editors' critically acclaimed editions of the complete short fiction: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition (1976, 1990).
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Rating: - Tales of terror
I've always had a liking for Edgar Allan Poe, with his tales of horror, mystery and suspense, done in the atmospheric prose of a master writer. Since I live close enough, I've even made some trips to his gravesite, a place that is always surrounded by a sense of sadness.
Poe was a tormented genius who died young, under mysterious circumstances, and wasn't deservingly popular -- presumably because his writing explored the darkness of the human heart, love, satire, and the earliest whodunnit ... Read More
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