About the book
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including \"The Pit and the Pendulum,\" \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" \"The Cask of Amontillado,\" \"The Masque of the Red Death,\" and \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\" the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random \"opinions\" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Editions of The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780670010127
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780670561773
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780670561780
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780143039914
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780140150124
- EBook
- ISBN 9781440627248
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including \"The Pit and the Pendulum,\" \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" \"The Cask of Amontillado,\" \"The Masque of the Red Death,\" and \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\" the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random \"opinions\" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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What is The Portable Edgar Allan Poe about?
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including \"The Pit and the Pendulum,\" \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" \"The Cask of Amontillado,\" \"The Masque of the Red Death,\" and \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\" the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random \"opinions\" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Portable Edgar Allan Poe?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Portable Edgar Allan Poe?
Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald Kennedy
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780670010127) and hardcover(ISBN 9780670561773) and hardcover(ISBN 9780670561780) and paperback(ISBN 9780143039914) and paperback(ISBN 9780140150124) and ebook(ISBN 9781440627248)
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