Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe-CONTENTS: -Philosophy of Furniture-A Tale of Jerusalem-The Sphinx-Hop Frog-The Man of the Crowd-Never Bet the Devill Your Head-Thou Art the Man-Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling-Bon-Bon-Some words with a Mummy-The Poetic Principle-Old English Poetry-POEMS: -Dedication-Preface-Poems of Later Life-The Raven-The Bells-Ulalume-To Helen-Annabel Lee-To Valentine-An Enigma-To my Mother-For Annie-To F ---- To Frances S. Osgood-The Golden-Eulalie-A Dream within a Dream-To Marie Louise (Shew) -To the Same-The City in the Sea-The Sleeper-Bridal Ballad-

Born in poverty at Boston, January 19, 1809, dying under painful circumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his whole literary career of scarcely fifteen years a pitiful struggle for mere subsistence, his memory malignantly misrepresented by his earliest biographer, Griswold, how completely has truth at last routed falsehood and how magnificently has Poe come into his own. For "The Raven," first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read, recited and parodied wherever the English language was spoken, the half-starved poet received $10! Less than a year later his brother poet, N. P. Willis, issued this touching appeal to the admirers of genius on behalf of the neglected author, his dying wife and her devoted mother, then living under very straitened circumstances in a little cottage at Fordham, N. Y.:

Includes Philosophy of Furniture, A Tale of Jerusalem, the Sphinx, Hop Frog, the Man of the Crowd, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Thou Art the Man, Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, and many other tales and poems.

Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Devill Your Head Thou Art the Man Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling Bon-Bon Some words with a Mummy The Poetic Principle Old English Poetry POEMS: Dedication Preface Poems of Later Life The Raven The Bells Ulalume To Helen Annabel Lee A Valentine An Enigma To my Mother For Annie To F---- To Frances S. Osgood Eldorado Eulalie A Dream within a Dream To Marie Louise (Shew) To the Same The City in the Sea The Sleeper Bridal Ballad Notes Poems of Manhood Lenore To One in Paradise The Coliseum The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm Silence Dreamland Hymn To Zante Scenes from "Politian" Note Poems of Youth Introduction (1831) Sonnet--To Science Al Aaraaf Tamerlane To Helen The Valley of Unrest Israfel To -- ("The Bowers Whereat, in Dreams I See") To -- ("I Heed not That my Earthly Lot") To the River -- Song A Dream Romance Fairyland The Lake To-- "The Happiest Day" Imitation Hymn. Translation from the Greek "In Youth I Have Known One" A Paean Notes Doubtful Poems Alone To Isadore The Village Street The Forest Reverie Notes

This, the first of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 8 of his short stories as well as reflections, critiques, and eulogies by others. Stories include; The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfam, The Gold-Bug, Four Beasts In One-The Homo-Came leopard, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Mystery Of Marie Roget, The Balloon-Hoax, Ms. Found In A Bottle and The Oval Portrait.

Presents a selection of Poe's tales and poems with in-depth marginal notes elucidating his sources, obscure words and passages, and literary, biographical, and historical allusions.