Synopses & Reviews
Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.
(Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Synopsis
An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.
Titles included:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Complete Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii).