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1	The Poe Shadow more books like this by Matthew Pearl add to wishlist Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer of Edgar Allan Poes work, puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poes. Following his phenomenal debut, "The Dante Club," Pearl has again created a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Man Who Was Poe more books like this by Avi add to wishlist Set in 1848, this is the story of Edmund, an 11-year-old boy desperately trying to solve the mystery of his family's disappearance. Edmund enlists the help of a stranger named Auguste Dupin, unaware that the man is actually the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Does Poe really want to help Edmund, or is he just seeking out grisly material for his next story? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Davidson add to wishlist Thompson (English and comparative literature, Purdue U.) relies on Poe's original works as they were first published, solving the problem of Poe's rewriting habit. Among his selections Thompson includes poems, tales and sketches, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and passages from Eureka: An Essay in the Material and Spiritual Universe. His backgr see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.39! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading more books like this by Professor John P Muller (Editor), William J Richardson (Editor) add to wishlist In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other ... see all copies from $10.04! new only from $25.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by Edgar Allan Poe add to wishlist Edgar Allan Poe is one of America's most gifted writers, best known for his poems and short fiction - his brooding tales of murder, madness and revenge still grab today's readers. Here are five of his finest, presented and fully annotated with chilling and evocative illustrations throughout. The collection includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Poe: A Life Cut Short more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as "The Fall of the House of Usher." As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the American South. His versatile writings - ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $13.34! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the American poet and master of the short story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.21! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Edgar A. Poe: A Biography: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance more books like this by Kenneth Silverman add to wishlist From a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, the most revealing, fascinating, and important biography of one of our greatest literary figures. "An authoritative biography that both clarifies many problems in Poe's life that have baffled readers for a century and a half and enriches interpretation of many of Poe's writings. . . ".--New York Times Book ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $11.48! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by J Gerald Kennedy (Editor) add to wishlist The essays collected here consider several aspects of Poe's life and oeuvre, including his relationship with the publishing industry, his place in the history of sensationalism, and the representation of gender throughout his body of work. A chronology of Poe's life supplements the text. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.78! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story more books like this by Professor John T Irwin add to wishlist In "The Mystery to a Solution", John Irwin examines the deeper significance of the genre Poe created and the meaning of Borges's efforts to "double" its origin. Drawing on history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues issues underlying the detective genre into areas as various as the history of mathematics, ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $3.27! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Disquiet Heart: A Thriller more books like this by Randall Silvis add to wishlist Devastated by the death of his beloved wife, Edgar Allan Poe heads to Pittsburgh on the invitation of a wealthy benefactor. Augie, now a young journalist in search of adventure, joins Poe to keep him company. There, they find the city in panic - five young girls have gone missing in as many weeks. With Poe almost incapacitated by the lavish ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	In a Strange City more books like this by Laura Lippman add to wishlist When one Poe fan shoots another at the famed writer's grave, private investigator Tess Monaghan is on the case. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Edgar Allan Poe,: A Critical Biography more books like this by Arthur Hobson Quinn add to wishlist Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Mask of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from his suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his ... see all copies from $16.60! new only from $18.95! \| SVS
14	The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by Julian Symons add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Unknown Poe more books like this by Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Foye (Editor) add to wishlist An indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire StA(c)phane MallarmA(c), Paul ValA(c)ry, & AndrA(c) Breton shed light on Poe's relevance within ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.11! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Poe Papers: A Tale of Passion more books like this by N L Zaroulis add to wishlist "A macabre, terrifying thriller."-Library Journal "A nightmare of sex, murder, and madness."-Kirkus Reviews "Told with great power. . . . A stunning achievement."-The Boston Globe "Nancy Zaroulis has a fierce sense of history. . . . A magnificent storyteller."-The Plain Dealer "Fascinating. . . . It would be interesting to see what Alfred ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions
17 view cover	Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy more books like this by Jeffrey Meyers add to wishlist This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant bu underpaid author, a temerate man and uncontrollable addict. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $12.80! \| SVS
18 view cover	Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race more books like this by J Gerald Kennedy (Editor), Liliane Weissberg (Editor) add to wishlist Edgar Allen Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville more books like this by Harry Levin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.77! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	An Unpardonable Crime more books like this by Andrew Taylor add to wishlist The narrator of this literary mystery is a man named Thomas Shield, who teaches at a school in London. One of his pupils is the young American Edgar Allan Poe, who is living in England with his foster parents after the death (or mysterious disappearance) of his own. When the father of Edgar's good friend, Charles Frant, is murdered, Shield ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Hum Bug more books like this by Harold Schechter add to wishlist P.T. Barnum hires Edgar Allan Poe to investigate a gruesome murder that seems to have been inspired by a diorama in Barnum's museum. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Lighthouse at the End of the World: 9 more books like this by Stephen Marlowe add to wishlist A mix of historical fiction, alternate history, and science fiction "The Lighthouse At the End of the World" tells the story of Edgar Allan Poe's final week. Poe, alternate Poes, and characters from Poe's fiction interact in various dimensions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Not Quite Dead more books like this by John MacLachlan Gray add to wishlist On a rust-bucket cargo ship bound from Liverpool to the United States in 1848, an Irish stowaway named Devlin steals a suspicious package after witnessing it changing hands between two sea captains. All he finds is a seemingly worthless pile of papers marked "David Copperfield, Final Four Numbers, by Charles Dickens." Devlin is determined to see ... see all copies from $3.23! new only from $3.23! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe more books like this by Kevin J Hayes (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, ... see all copies from $5.34! new only from $18.57! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce more books like this by Umberto Eco (Editor), Thomas A Sebeok (Editor) add to wishlist '...fascinating throughout...the book is recreative in the highest sense' - Arthur C. Danto, "The New Republic". 'A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars' - "Library Journal". see all copies from $5.37! new only from $18.63! \| first editions \| SVS

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