The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 4

22 short stories from the master of horror and mystery, including; 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; 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; and, Shadow—A Parable.

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 Mellonia Tauta The Duc De L'omlette 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 Monas And Una The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion Shadow.--A Parable

These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature. From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” along with dozens of other short stories and poems.

Reproduction of the original.

Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore- Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of "never-never more!" THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of Poe's genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the "Haunted Palace": And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling ever more, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painful circumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his whole literary career of scarcely fifteen years a pitiful struggle for mere subsistence, his memory malignantly misrepresented by his earliest biographer, Griswold, how completely has truth at last routed falsehood and how magnificently has Poe come into his own, For "The Raven," first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read, recited and parodied wherever the English language was spoken, the half-starved poet received $10! Less than a year later his brother poet, N. P. Willis, issued this touching appeal to the admirers of genius on behalf of the neglected author, his dying wife and her devoted mother, then living under very straitened circumstances in a little cottage at Fordham, N. Y.: