The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Annotated and Illustrated)

This edition contains the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, short and long biographies, historical background, critical commentary, and 80 full color and black-and-white illustrations of Poe’s works, including two sets of illustrations for his famous poem, The Raven. You will learn the motivation and historical context behind Poe’s stories and poems in addition to gaining an even deeper appreciation of his works.

This book contains the following works:

Illustrations

Commentary:
Edgar Allan Poe: An Appreciation
Edgar Allan Poe (A Short Biography)
Death of Edgar A. Poe
To Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (Commentary)
The Centenary of Edgar Allan Poe
The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life Story of Edgar Allan Poe
The Poet of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe
The Story of Edgar Allan Poe

Stories and Essays
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Balloon-Hoax
Manuscript Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait
The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
A Descent into the Maelstrom
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence—A Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Assignation
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Domain of Arnheim
Landor’s Cottage
William Willson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Berenice
Eleonora
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragraph
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd: An Extravaganza
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de l’Omelette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel’s Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow—A Parable
Philosophy of Furniture
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop-Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
Some Words with a Mummy
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry

Scenes from “Politian” (unfinished play)

Poems (including The Raven, The Bells, Lenore, The Conqueror Worm, and many others)