![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() ![]() 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. Book Synopsis The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poes 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 worlds first detective story. Along with the authors familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. About the Book The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. ![]()
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