Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, 1965, HC, VG~A Golden Illustrated Classic

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase supports Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are donated from different sources. This book is in very good condition, hardly used, see photos for details. I will combine shipping for each additional item purchased. Please do not pay for books until you are done bidding/shopping, and I will create a new Invoice with the reduced shipping charges. Please, I cannot issue refunds due to penalties that EBay assesses. Feel free to submit any questions you have. Thanks! A PREFACE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten . lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door-- «"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Nameless here forevermore. Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven" is said to be the almost perfect mirror of its author's despair, and the grim black bird has become the symbol of one of America's best-known writers. For over a century Poe's tales have chilled his readers, young and old, and have filled them with "fantastic terrors never felt before." Who can share the fright of the victim in "The Pit and the Pendulum," or watch the events just before the fall of the House of Usher, without an almost overwhelming (and utterly satisfying) thrill of horror? Although Edgar Allan Poe now holds a secure place in American literature, the author of such masterpieces as "The Gold-Bug" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" lived in poverty and despair most of his adult life. Born in Boston in 1809 and orphaned at two, young Edgar was taken into the home of friends, the Allans, who gave him their name. He was educated in English and American schools and was enrolled in the University of Virginia, but his gambling debts soon caused his withdrawal. Thereafter, he ran away from home and served two years in the United States Army. Appointed to West Point, he was dismissed shortly for "gross neglect of duty." Discouraged, penniless, he was connected with a succession of magazines which he served well but always briefly. In a pathetic bid for happiness Poe married his young cousin Virginia whom he loved deeply, but their life together was marred by tragic poverty and by Virginia's long illness. Her death prostrated Poe, and he died two years later, in 1849. And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted—-nevermore!

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