Collected Works: Volume IV
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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory. Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs. He often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy. His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Though known as a masterly practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following a long-standing popular tradition.
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Sheba Blake. Collected Works: Volume IV
Contents
One. The Devil in the Belfry
Two. Lionizing
Three. X-ing a Paragrab
Four. Metzengerstein
Five. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Six. How to Write a Blackwood Aritcle
Seven. A Predicament
Eight. Mystification
Nine. Diddling
Ten. The Angel of the Odd
Eleven. Mellonta Tauta
Twelve. The Duc de L’omelette
Thirteen. The Oblong Box
Fourteen. Loss of Breath
Fifteen. The Man That Was Used Up
Sixteen. The Business Man
Seventeen. The Landscape Garden
Eighteen. Maelzel’s Chess-Player
Nineteen. The Power of Words
Twenty. The Colloquy of Monos and Una
Twenty One. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Twenty Two. Shadow - A Parable
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Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol 4
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