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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
4.0
Lots of dead women, discovering how people have died, and burials.
First time reading anything by Poe, and again appreciated the background information provided about his life and the context of the writings.
Poe took some getting used to especially with his short stories, but I ended up really enjoying half of them including: Bernice, Morella, A Descent into the Maelström, The Pit and the Pendulum, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.
The novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was in parts a fun swashbuckling adventure, and then a few pages of longitude and latitude description that dragged.
Again I liked about half of the poems including: Israfel, The Sleeper, Dream-Land, The Raven, A Dream within a Dream, Eldorado.
First time reading anything by Poe, and again appreciated the background information provided about his life and the context of the writings.
Poe took some getting used to especially with his short stories, but I ended up really enjoying half of them including: Bernice, Morella, A Descent into the Maelström, The Pit and the Pendulum, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.
The novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was in parts a fun swashbuckling adventure, and then a few pages of longitude and latitude description that dragged.
Again I liked about half of the poems including: Israfel, The Sleeper, Dream-Land, The Raven, A Dream within a Dream, Eldorado.