{"product_id":"the-complete-stories-of-edgar-allan-poe-introduction-by-john-seelye-hardcover","title":"The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Introduction by John Seelye - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Seelye\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre-his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent-in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman-the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e(Jacket Status: Jacketed)\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poems \u003ci\u003eTamerlane and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in 1827, followed by \u003ci\u003eTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque\u003c\/i\u003e (which included \"The Fall of the House of Usher\") in 1839, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of \"The Raven\" in 1845. He died in 1849.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 992\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.78 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756914114848,"sku":"9780679417408","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5635d17a3ec60fc35afa9401c70a8fbf.webp?v=1780089087","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-complete-stories-of-edgar-allan-poe-introduction-by-john-seelye-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}