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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]
"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe "Alone" is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.
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.
Edgar Allan Poe Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-8057-4572-6; Poe, Harry Lee. Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stores. New York: Metro Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4351-0469-3; Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. ISBN 0-06-092331-8
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights.
Publication history of "Some Words with a Mummy" at The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore "Some Words with a Mummy" reprinted in the November 1, 1845, issue of The Broadway Journal, Vol 2. No. 17. Original publication in The American Review, April 1845, Vol. I, no. IV, p. 363. Some Words with a Mummy public domain audiobook at LibriVox