{"product_id":"the-portable-edgar-allan-poe-paperback","title":"The Portable Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portable Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e 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,\" \"The Masque of the Red Death,\" 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. His books on Poe include \u003ci\u003ePoe, Death, and the Life of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003e\"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym\" and the Abyss of Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and several edited volumes including \u003ci\u003eA Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eRomancing the Shadow: Poe and Race \u003c\/i\u003e(2001; with Liliane Weissberg), and \u003ci\u003ePoe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2012; with Jerome McGann). His major contribution to American literary studies is \u003ci\u003eStrange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), written with the support of fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also published \u003ci\u003eImagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Black Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). He has appeared in many Poe documentary films, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) for the A\u0026amp;E Biography series and Eric Stange's film for the PBS American Masterpiece series, \u003ci\u003eEdgar A. Poe: Buried Alive\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403145376049,"sku":"9780143039914","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/Nm1lcEVIOXhHc3VtamUycm1CdXh3UT09.webp?v=1768912527","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/the-portable-edgar-allan-poe-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}