Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509826698 Number of pages: 456 Weight: 244 g Dimensions: 156 x 103 x 27 mm You may also be interested in. Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) (ID:71438) Condition: - Price: US 28.45 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. Your search for Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe returned 120 results. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Poe, Edgar Allen: 9781406793017: : Books Books Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Buy new: 24.10 List Price: 33.99 Save: 9. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. Including Poe’s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author’s macabre works.Ĭonsidered to be one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular tales.‘The Gold-Bug’ is the only tale that was popular in his lifetime, whereas ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ became more widely read after his death.įocussing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud’s later theories on the psyche, Poe’s Gothic terror stories are considered masterpieces the world over.This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. ‘Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.’

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