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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.
As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favor of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem "mysterious" in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- "The Pit and the Pendulum," "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.
As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favor of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem "mysterious" in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- "The Pit and the Pendulum," "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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David Van Leer has taught at both Cornell and Princeton University, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to The New Republic on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. He is the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays (1986) and The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (1995).
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"This new selection of Poe's short fiction, The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales, edited with an informative introduction and helpful notes by David Van Leer, contains many of Poe's best-known tales, but also reprints some less famous stories alongside the likes of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Masque of the Red Death' ... if you're yet to possess a copy of Poe's essential fiction, this is the one to get. It's beautifully bound in glorious purple, and also an excellent edition for the student of Poe." -- Interesting Literature
David Van Leer has taught at both Cornell and Princeton University, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to The New Republic on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. He is the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays (1986) and The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (1995).
"This new selection of Poe's short fiction, The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales, edited with an informative introduction and helpful notes by David Van Leer, contains many of Poe's best-known tales, but also reprints some less famous stories alongside the likes of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Masque of the Red Death' ... if you're yet to possess a copy of Poe's essential fiction, this is the one to get. It's beautifully bound in glorious purple, and also an excellent edition for the student of Poe." -- Interesting Literature
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