The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Part Four | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym)

June 14, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Edited by Benjamin F. Fisher. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. 642 pgs. Purchased. I left of the last two words in the title of Poe’s only complete novel; typing out The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket would make the title of this post entirely way too long. The title character of this tale experiences a series of adventures and misadventures — a shipwreck, mutiny, cannibalism — after stowing away aboard the Grampus, a whaling ship. […]

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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Part Three | Never Bet the Devil Your Head to Hop-Frog)

June 11, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Edited by Benjamin F. Fisher. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. 642 pgs. Purchased. The final set of tales included in this collection before the multi-chaptered The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym includes some of Poe’s more well-known tales — “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Premature Burial”. Yet even still I find that I am still not enamored with Poe. There were some tales I enjoyed more than others, but I find myself […]

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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Part Two | Metzengerstein to A Descent into the Maelström)

June 5, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Edited by Benjamin F. Fisher. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. 642 pgs. Purchased. The first sixteen tales included in this collection are some of Poe’s lesser known works. Lesser known, in my (unqualified) opinion. I previously read six of the sixteen tales for my English literature class junior year of high school, and I distinctly remember writing a response paper on “Ligeia”. It was interesting rereading some of my notes and highlights on this six stories — […]

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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Part One | Introduction and Poems)

May 28, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Edited by Benjamin F. Fisher. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. 642 pgs. Purchased. I purchase this tome over six years ago for English literature class my junior year of high school. According to the highlighting within, my classmates and I assigned four poems – “Fairy-Land”, “To Helen”, “Dream-Land”, and “The Raven” – and five tales – Ligeia, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Purloined Letter – during […]

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