The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Published on 28 September 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's 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,' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' the world's first detective story. 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.