Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) - ebook

At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Now you can truly own Poe’s immense and diverse works on your eReading device. (Version 6)

* the COMPLETE poetry, with special Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables
* the COMPLETE tales, with its own Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables
* brief but informative introductions to many poems, tales and other texts
* images of how the books first appeared, giving your EReader a taste of the original texts
* Poe’s rare unfinished play POLITIAN, with perfect formatting
* BOTH of Poe’s novels, including the very rare unfinished novel THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN
* many short stories and poems are presented with their original illustrations
* Every non-fiction essay – even the rare ones recently discovered – available in no other digital collection
* many images relating to Poe, his life and works
* INCLUDES with the Complete Letters – spend hours perusing Poe’s personal correspondence!
* the letters have separate tables to help you find whatever letter you want easily
* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* four biographical works exploring Poe’s mysterious life, including the infamous memoir by Griswold
* criticism section, featuring essays by other famous writers examining Poe’s contribution to literature
* features Poe’s contributions to THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK

The eBook also includes a front no-nonsense table of contents to allow easy navigation around Poe’s oeuvre.

Contents

The Poetry Collections
TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS
AL AARAAF, TAMERLANE AND MINOR POEMS
POEMS, 1831
THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS
UNCOLLECTED POEMS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Novels
THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET
THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN

The Play
POLITIAN

The Essays
INDEX OF THE COMPLETE ESSAYS

The Non-Fiction
THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK
THE LITERATI
MARGINALIA
FIFTY SUGGESTIONS
A CHAPTER ON AUTOGRAPHY

The Letters
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS, LETTERS AND DATES

The Criticism
EDGAR A. POE by James Russell Lowell.
AN EXTRACT FROM ‘FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES’ by Arthur Symons
AN EXTRACT FROM ‘LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS’ by Andrew Lang
THE CENTENARY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edmund Gosse
FROM POE TO VALÉRY by T.S. Eliot

The Biographies
THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Sherwin Cody
THE DREAMER by Mary Newton Stanard
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE. by N. P. Willis