Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. The author: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe Janu– October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. The book : Scarce and attractive early edition of the Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales.

Illustrations : Illustrated with a nice frontis illustration.

Publisher : Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 1864.īinding : Attractive and very good original full red cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent : Very good content (bright and tight, rare staining and foxing - as shown)