Excerpt from The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 3: Tales
Ligeia Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
The lack of uniformity in spelling is intentional, being found also in the original used for copy. At the head of each ule will be found information as to the dates of all early printings. The figures 1840, 1843, 1845, refer to the collected editions of those dates :T ales of the Grotesque and A rabesque, 2vols,, Philadelphia, Lea Blanchard, 1840; Prose Romances of Edgar Allan Poe, Philadelphia, 1843; Tales by Edgar A. Poe, New York, Wiley Sc Putnam, 1845 (D uyckinck Selection).
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. 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.
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