Edgar Allan Poe - Ultimate Collection: 160+ Short Stories, Novels & Poems (Including Essays & Letters) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Raven, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-tale Heart… (With Biography)By Edgar Allan Poe
Length108h 44m
About this audiobook
Edgar Allan Poe - Ultimate Collection gathers the full breadth of Poe's achievement: tales of ratiocination, Gothic terror, psychological obsession, sea adventure, satire, poems of musical melancholy, critical essays, and revealing letters. Read together, these 160-plus works show a writer refining Romanticism into something darker, more analytical, and distinctly modern. From "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Raven" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the volume charts Poe's decisive role in shaping detective fiction, horror, symbolism, and the short-story form. Poe's own life—marked by orphanhood, precarious finances, editorial labor, bereavement, and a relentless pursuit of literary distinction—deeply informs the collection's preoccupations with loss, beauty, reason, madness, and mortality. As poet, critic, magazine editor, and theorist of composition, he wrote with unusual self-consciousness about artistic effect, insisting that every detail should contribute to a unified emotional design. This collection is ideal for readers seeking both immersion and perspective: students, scholars, and general readers will find in it not merely famous macabre pieces, but the intellectual architecture behind them. It is an essential library of American literary innovation.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length108 hrs 44 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Edgar Allan Poe - Ultimate Collection: 160+ Short Stories, Novels & Poems (Including Essays & Letters) (Annotated)
26The Assignation
2Introduction
27Berenice
3Author Biography
28Morella
4Historical Context
29The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
5Synopsis (Selection)
30William Wilson
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6Edgar Allan Poe - Ultimate Collection: 160+ Short Stories, Novels & Poems (Including Essays & Letters)
31The Imp of the Perverse
7Short Stories
32Hop-Frog (Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs)
8The Murders in the Rue Morgue
33The Light-House
9The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
34Ms. Found in a Bottle
10The Purloined Letter
35A Descent into the Maelstrom
11The Gold-Bug
36The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
12Thou Art the Man
37The Balloon-Hoax
13The Man of the Crowd
38Mesmeric Revelation
14The Tell-Tale Heart
39The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
15The Fall of the House of Usher
40Some Words with a Mummy
16The Cask of Amontillado
41Mystification
17The Black Cat
42The Premature Burial
18The Masque of the Red Death
43The Oblong Box
19The Pit and the Pendulum
44The Spectacles
20Ligeia
45The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
21The Oval Portrait (Life in Death)
46The Sphinx
22A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
47The Island of the Fay
23Eleonora
48The Landscape Garden
24A Dream
49Morning on the Wissahiccon
25Metzengerstein
50The Domain of Arnheim
Unheimliche GeschichtenEdgar Allan Poe6h 19m$10 · $0.00
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Phantastische Erzählungen: Ein SammelbandEdgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, Fjodor M. Dostojewski, A. K. Tolstoi, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Prosper Mérimée, Octave Mirbeau, Rudyard Kipling, Jodocus Temme, Jakob Elias Poritzky154h 45m$1 · $0.00
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Famous Detectives On Christmas Duty - Ultimate Murder Mysteries for HolidaysEdgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Grace Livingston Hill, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch383h 16m$1.99 · $0.00
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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective StoriesEdgar Allan Poe, A. Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Villiers Adam, C. Moffett, F. Marryat, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, Théopile Gautier, L. Hearn, C. B. Fernando, Brander Matthews, R. L. Stevenson, W. F. Harvey, Anna Katherine Green, Anton Chekhov, T. W. Hanshew, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Sir R. Anderson, R. A. Cram, Pliny the Younger, Joseph L. French, Ambrose Bierce, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Helena Blavatsky, Thomas Hardy48h 43m4.2 (18)$1.99 · $0.00
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