Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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- ISBN13: 9780385074070
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This single volume brings together all of Poe’s tales and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential facts in American literary history.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
It is to some extent hard to know the popularity of a writer such as Edgar Allan Poe, when one considers how much the lyricism of his poetry and the inventiveness and forcefulness of his thoughts are marred by the pomposity and portentousness of his language. Purple prose was the well loved style among many writers at the time, especially of gothic horror tales (look at Hawthorne, and Dunsany, and Washtington Irving): and the man certainly did have an impressive vocabulary: but sometimes it seems as though he were deliberately trying to mislead the reader. After all, there are only so many obscure words one can cram into a sentence (what, for example, is a “mulcet”? What on planet is a “simoom”?). Persons interested in Poe would do best in turning to his poetry, which is gorgeous, dark, and sombre, to learn the full extent of his inventive genius. But in fleeting, don’t bother with his tales unless you are an aspiring writer, appreciate tales which are to some extent grotesque and bizzare, or have the patience and comprehension to swallow a divers array of esoteric and obfuscating syllables.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I like Poe’s writing, but this book is in the original “olde” English and is very hard to read for me. So I am really not too pleased with this particular version. I should have read the “tiny print”.
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Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This collection is hard to rate. The “Tales of Mystery and Horror” are very excellent, such classics that you have to remind yourself reading them that the tinges of optimism are a function of the Romantic Age in which Poe was writing, and the cliches weren’t when he penned them. The “Humor and Satire” section is even better, surprisingly amusing lacking the occasional romantic extremes of the horror tales.
From there on out (“Flights and Fantasies”, the tale “The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, and “The Poems”) are virtually unreadable morasses of optimism run amuck, long pretentious descriptive paragraphs, and nearly no dialogue.
Skip ‘em.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Not being a literary practiced, I take the publishers at their
word that this thick volume contains all Poe’s stores and poems.
Nobody with any fondness for literature should be unacquainted with Poe. Personally, after all these years I’m delighted to have this
compilation of his work in a single hard-take in volume at an very affordable fee. My only wish is that a few expertly drawn
illustrations accompanied some of the tales. Persons that
share this desire should seek additional, illustrated, editions of Poe’s work.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5