The Fall of the House of Usher: And Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Poe - Couverture souple

Poe, Edgar Allan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 110449017X ISBN 13 : 9781104490171

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2009

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Poe in his essay on YV Hawthorne, how the highest genius could be most advantageously employed for the best display of its own powers, I should answer, without hesitation, in the composition of a rhymed poem, not to exceed in length what might be perused in an hour. .. .N ext to such a poem I should unhesitatingly speak of the prose tale as Mr. Hawthorne has exemplified it. I allude to the short prose narrative requiring from a half-hour to one or two hours in its perusal. Poe, the tale-writer, was very faithful to his theory. It is not often that an author is able to illustrate his critical ideas in his original work as well as Poe did; and in his tales perhaps, even more than in his poems. And now that the shorter tale seems almost likely in its increasing vogue to take the place of the long novel not altogether unfortunately, it may be thought, seeing to what inane results the long novel is apt to lead us Poe stales may well be turned to anew for their admirable example in the art of fiction. There are, no doubt, many paths open to the tale-writer that he did not attempt His, it has been said, was a narrow range, in which melancholy, curiosity, and horror are the leading motives; but it was Poe svirtue that, driven by temperament and circumstance toward these things, he strove to give them in the most perfect way.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 110449017X
• ISBN 13: 9781104490171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Rhys Ernest
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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