[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Pocket Edition)

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American novelist, poet, and literary critic in the 19th century. He is regarded as one of the first writers to consciously treat the short story as an independent literary genre. He advocated "art for art's sake," promoting aestheticism and mysticism. He is revered as the "father of the detective novel" for works such as The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Gold Bug, and celebrated as the "father of the horror novel" for works like The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death.