The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

In general this narrator is acceptable he regularly mispronounces certain words, but his evident understanding of Poe's often complex sentence structure makes his reading adequate. Reviews on the Kindle edition reveal that this is the case there as well, so perhaps the narrator was reading from that version.

Through some error of transcription or typography, sections of many of the stories in this collection have been omitted - specifically, any and every block quotation (including all poetry) is entirely skipped, and certain paragraphs are inexplicably absent (such as Roderick Usher's climactic dialogue in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'). Warning: Missing portions of the original text Valdemar', 'The Black Cat', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'Silence: A Fable', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Cask of Amontillado', 'The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Island of the Fay', 'The Assignation', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Premature Burial', 'The Domain of Arnheim', 'Landor's Cottage', and 'William Wilson'. This volume includes 'The Purloined Letter', 'The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade', 'A Descent into the Maelstrom', 'Von Kempelen and his Discovery', 'Mesmeric Revelation', 'The Facts in the Case of Mr. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. A collection of classic works by Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, editor, and literary critic.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 2 by Edgar Allan Poe