内容简介
在线阅读本书 "The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
作者简介
Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) was born in Boston, the son of impoverished actors. He reached the peak of his fame with the publication of The Raven in 1845.
J. Gerald Kennedy is William A. Read Professor of English at Louisiana State University.