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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel.His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1]
The original text included the line "It was a dark and stormy night" as a tribute to Edward Bulwer-Lytton. [12] The line was removed in later editions. Poe retitled the story "Bon-Bon—A Tale" when it was republished in the Southern Literary Messenger in August 1835. [13] It was later published in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1845. [14]
Originally titled "Heaven," "Fairy-Land" was written while Poe was at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Poe first offered the poem to Nathaniel Parker Willis , who wrote in an edition of "The Editor's Table" of the American Monthly of how he threw the submission into the fire and joyfully watched it burn. [ 17 ]
Eureka: by Edgar Allan Poe at Project Gutenberg; Eureka: A Prose Poem – Full text from the 1848 edition; Eureka: A Prose Poem public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Report on Poe's Lecture on "The Universe" by John H. Hopkins, from the New York Evening Express, February 4, 1848 "The Thought of a Thought". MathPages.com.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus.
The story is a satire [5] and is often interpreted as a reflection of Poe's strained relationship with his foster father John Allan, himself a successful businessman. [3] The story also satirizes businesspeople in general, suggesting that their success is not due to their method of punctuality and self-discipline but because of ruthless business practices, violence, egotism, and pure chance. [6]
"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances.