The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Modern Library Giants G40) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

xii, 1026 pp. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4. Introduction by Hervey Allen. Paul Galdone jacket. "Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works -- "The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" -- as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays."