Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of The Grotesque & Arabesque

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com­pan­ion vol­ume to Poe’s better-​known Tales of Mys­tery and Imag­i­na­tion, con­tains a selec­tion of his very best sto­ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig­i­nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. Many of the sto­ries deal with the famil­iar Poe themes of mur­der, obses­sion and pas­sion, but this vol­ume also con­tains many often-​overlooked tales of the fan­tas­tic and comic, par­o­dies and hoaxes, includ­ing ‘The Unpar­al­leled Adven­ture of Hans Pfaall’, ‘Mes­meric Rev­e­la­tion’, ‘Hop-​Frog’, and & ‘The Imp of the Perverse’.

The book includes a sec­tion in colour, and con­tains use­ful essays from notable schol­ars: an intro­duc­tion by Kevin J. Hayes and Ben­jamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.

engag­ing biog­ra­phy of Edgar Allen Poe
the com­plete text in a mod­ern, read­able typeface
an illus­trated pub­lish­ing his­tory of the tales
time­line in colour of Poe’s world
colour map of Poe’s America

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volumul insotitor al celor mai cunoscute Povesti ale misterului si imaginatiei lui Poe, contine o selectie a celor mai bune povesti ale sale, dintre care multe au aparut pentru prima data sub forma de carte in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840 .