Selected Tales

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular--The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.

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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/15/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.67h x 5.22w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780199535774
ISBN10: 0199535779
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

David Van Leer is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of California, Davis.