1904 Edgar Allan Poe Works , Tales and Poems ; The Raven Murder Occult Horror

Description: The Works OfEdgar Allan Poe Commemorative EditionFive Volumes Published by Funk & Wagnalls CompanyNew York and London1904 HardcoversCloth bindings.4" x 6"About 200 pages per volume; a little over 1,000 pages in total. 120 years old. The first 5 volumes of the 10 volume "Commemorative Edition" of Poe's works. These volumes contain poems and tales. ------- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.Poe is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of early American literature. He is also credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction , and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. --------- The Contents : Volume I. Introduction and PoemsBiography of Poe ( about 20 pages )The Philosophy of CompositionThe Poetic PrinciplePoe's Poems( including The Raven , The Bells , Annabel Lee , A Dream Within A Dream , The City in the Sea , Lenore , The Haunted Palace , The Conqueror Worm , Silence , Dreamland , To Zante , Tamerlane , Al Araraaf , Israfel , The Valley of Unrest , Spirits of the Dead , Fairyland , The Coliseum , The Sleeper , etc., etc. ) Volume II. Tales of Marvelous AdventureNarrative of A. Gordon Pym( The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, which was written in 1838, is Poe's only complete novel. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck , mutiny , and cannibalism , before he is saved by the crew of another ship, the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south , including an encounter with hostile, natives before escaping back to the ocean.The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but proceeds to become increasingly strange.Poe incorporated " Hollow Earth " theory into this story. Volume III. Tales of Marvelous AdventureSeveral stories, including: The Balloon Hoax , Mellonta Tauta , The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall , MS. Found In A Bottle , A Descent into the Maelstrom , A Tale of the Ragged Mountains , and The Oblong Box Volume IV. Tales of Detection of CrimeSeveral stories, including: The Murders in the Rue Morgue , The Mystery of Marie Roget , The Purloned Letter , " Thou Art The Man ," and The Sphynx Volume V. Tales of Mystery and OccultismSeveral stories, including: The Gold Bug , Vin Kempelen and His Discovery , Mesmeric Revelation , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , Some Words with a Mummy , Metzengerstein , William Wilson , The Man of the Crowd , and The Imp of the Perverse ----- Condition.Binding wear and staining.The rear cover of volume I. is heavily stained.( see the photos )Old water-staining on the title-pages and frontispieces.Some staining in the margins of the first few pages in each volume, but it fades after several pages.Tight hinges.No writing.No markings.No bad odor.Otherwise good. 120 years old. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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