This selection of Poe's critical writings,short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart,a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him,while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence,fear and hate.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141190624Number of pages: 256Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
Edgar Allan Poe
Visit the Edgar Allan Poe author pagePeter Ackroyd
Equally praised for his formally experimental fiction,his inventive biographies and his ambitious histories (particularly of his home and birthplace of London),Peter Ackroyd is arguably one of the greatest writers of his generation. With a particular partiality for Victorian and Gothic influences,his most famous novels include: Hawksmoor,Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem,The English Ghost and his own re-telling of The Canterbury Tales and The Death of King Arthur. His non-fiction ranges widely,encompassing: London the Biography,London the Concise Biography,London Under,Thames: Sacred River,Venice: Pure City,a multi-volume history of London (Foundation,Tudors,Civil War,Revolution) and Queer City as well as biographies of Chaucer,Shakespeare,Dickens,Blake,Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock.
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