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Edgar Allan Poe


Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
January 19, 1809

Died
October 07, 1849

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The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 1,895,464 ratings · 79,963 reviews · 9,796 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Complete Stories and Poems

4.40 avg rating — 295,985 ratings — published 1849 — 600 editions
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Oth...

4.19 avg rating — 244,645 ratings — published 1843 — 91 editions
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The Raven

4.29 avg rating — 170,155 ratings — published 1845 — 1199 editions
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The Tell-Tale Heart

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The Cask of Amontillado

4.07 avg rating — 88,138 ratings — published 1846 — 364 editions
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The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Us...

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The Essential Tales and Poe...

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The Pit and the Pendulum

4.14 avg rating — 72,412 ratings — published 1842 — 60 editions
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The Black Cat

4.03 avg rating — 57,338 ratings — published 1843 — 86 editions
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Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe  (?)
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
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