The complete stories / Edgar Allan Poe ; with an introduction by John Seelye.
Material type: TextSeries: Everyman's library ; 99Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1992.Description: xxxv, 955 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0679417400
- Tales. 1992
- 813.3 20
- PS2612 .A1 1992
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Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii).
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