{"product_id":"9781942652021","title":"Selected Short Stories and Poems of American Romantics (Illustrated)","description":"This collection features classic short stories and poems by the nineteenth century literary giants, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Their masterpieces of mystery, terror and the supernatural abound with irony and symbolism and have been eulogized by world-renowned authors:\u003cp\u003e\"Poe's verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demonic undertone behind every page - and, by final judgement, probably belong among the electric lights of imaginative literature, brilliant and dazzling...\"\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman, \"Edgar Poe's Significance,\" The Critic, II, 1882\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The story of the Lady Ligeia is not merely one of the wonders of literature: it is unparalleled and unapproached.\"\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Bernard Shaw, \"Edgar Allan Poe,\" Nation, 1909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... in the field of letters, Hawthorne is the most valuable example of the American genius.\"\u003cbr\u003eHenry James, Hawthorne, 1879\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dreamself, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life. Melville was, at the core, a mystic and an idealist\"\u003cbr\u003eD. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature, 1923\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes 10 unique illustrations and the following works:\u003cbr\u003eLigeia\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall of the House of Usher\u003cbr\u003eThe Tell-Tale Heart\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Cat\u003cbr\u003eThe Cask of Amontillado\u003cbr\u003eThe Pit and the Pendulum\u003cbr\u003eDream-Land\u003cbr\u003eThe Raven\u003cbr\u003eUlalume\u003cbr\u003eThe Birthmark\u003cbr\u003eYoung Goodman Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Minister's Black Veil\u003cbr\u003eRappaccini's Daughter\u003cbr\u003eRoger Malvin's Burial\u003cbr\u003eThe Darken'd Veil\u003cbr\u003eForms of Heroes\u003cbr\u003eBartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street\u003cbr\u003eThe Martyr\u003cbr\u003eThe Maldive Shark\u003cbr\u003eThe Berg (A Dream)\u003cbr\u003eLook-Out Mountain (The Night Fight)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ELL Reading, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040509149424,"sku":"9781942652021","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942652021_p0.jpg?v=1763757306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942652021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}