Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe -- Edgar Allan Poe

<p><b>This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.</b></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Edgar Allan Poe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Doubleday Books<br><b>Published:</b> 08/15/1984<br><b>Pages:</b> 832<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 2.19lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.46h x 6.03w x 1.85d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780385074070<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Edgar Allan Poe</b> was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poems <i>Tamerlane and Other Poems</i> in 1827, followed by <i>Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque</i> (which included The Fall of the House of Usher) in 1839, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of The Raven in 1845. He died in 1849.</p>