Edgar Allan Poe The Dover Reader

Will be posted Feb 27 This Edgar Allan Poe book is separated by his Fiction, Poetry and Non Fiction. The book is just under 600 pages, but that is to be expected when it contains so much content! This book is full of Poe's finest works which includes his only completed novel - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. I only read a few of the smaller poems, several of his stories I had read in various classes over the years as well and I quite appreciate his works. A great compilation of his works if you are looking to get all of the Poe that you can in just one place.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review. I was not otherwise compensated.

(There are 17 included in Fiction, 43 poems and 3 non-fiction works included in this anthology.)

"Nevermore, Nevermore" Need I say more? For anyone even remotely into the macabre, they must be a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, the author that invented the entire genre. This is a collection of his greatest stories and poems and is a must have for any fan as well as anyone that loves horror or creepy tales.

Much better than, say, the Conrad edition in this franchise, is this selection of texts that, while in the public domain, have been treated and compiled very well. There's again little in the way of context, but here there is enough, so we get a gist of what and why the most important stories here are represented. What did it for me was the selection of Poe's poetry – while perhaps the non-fiction here is generally harder to find and rarer, the verse went a long way to filling out my personal image of this author (surprising perhaps when you see how one-note the dreary whole may be). A great compilation of shorter works and some longer fictions, all goes to provide a brilliant round-up of this classic, canonical author. Very highly recommended.

A favorite author well represented in this selection of his works!