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A review by annamickreads
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
3.0
A compendium like this of the majority (if not all) of Poe's writings is really handy for someone who meant to read them back before "The Fall of the House of Usher" on Netflix like myself.
That said, I think putting all of Poe's works right next to each other shows how he often repeated themes and concepts throughout his short stories, especially when it came to women. That's not to say most authors don't have a signature style, but how many stories can one person write about their beloved actually being dead/seeing the dead/dying mysteriously and haunting the narrator forever.
That said, obviously his most popular works are popular for a reason, and it was extremely fun to read through "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Masque of the Red Death" again.
That said, I think putting all of Poe's works right next to each other shows how he often repeated themes and concepts throughout his short stories, especially when it came to women. That's not to say most authors don't have a signature style, but how many stories can one person write about their beloved actually being dead/seeing the dead/dying mysteriously and haunting the narrator forever.
That said, obviously his most popular works are popular for a reason, and it was extremely fun to read through "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Masque of the Red Death" again.