Larger	Selected Tales (The World's Classics) Author: Edgar Allan Poe
	Book Information Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780192815224 - ISBN-10: 0192815229 Publication Date: 6/26/1980 Pages: 330

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very
American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular --"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter"--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political
satires.