Tales: Nonsuch Classics

By Edgar Allan Poe

Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of twenty-five stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which include 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. And 'Silence: A Fable', together make up the body of both Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and Tales of the Folio Club. Taken as a whole, Poe's writing has cast its dark and exquisite shadow over many genres of literature, from the mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the science fiction of Jules Verne, but in this collection the author's ability to explore the darker corners of the readers' psyche comes to the fore. Such is the power of his story-telling that his tales retain their eerie power to delight and terrify in equal measure more than a century and a half after his death.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Oct 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9780752471624

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

Reviews for Tales

[verncox-2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Poe is my all time favorite author. Franklin's compilation doesn'tdisappoint.

[lyndatrue · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I'm ambivalent on the New Pocket Library collection of books. The introductions are nice, but every time I see that Moffett has "revised" the book, I wonder what it was he found necessary to change. I went over a couple of things, line by line, and now realize that the revisions are to the introductions, so I've changed his role to Editor.This book has a work by Poe that I don't see in a lot of collections. Here's the list:Edgar Allan Poe (an introduction, and brief biography)The Fall of the House of UsherLigeiaThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Pit and the PendulumWilliam WilsonA Descent Into the MaelstromThe Gold BugThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Purloined LetterI believe this collection may be the only one I own with "William Wilson" (and I'm not sure that I'd ever read it before now). It's an interesting little pastiche, as Poe's work often is. I lift a nice Amontillado in Poe's honor, every now and then.

[tambrock · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An excellent collection of classic Poe literature, known as the the "official" text. This includes classics such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum. A great read for anyone interested in great literary genius.