TY - BOOK AU - Edgar Allan Poe AU - POE (Edgar Allan) AU - VENKATESAN (Sathyaraj) Ed TI - Selected tales and critical writings SN - 9789386296672 U1 - 818.3 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Hyderabad PB - Orient Blackswan KW - American Miiscellaneous Writings KW - Critical Essays KW - Tales KW - American English Criticism N2 - Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most enigmatic and controversial writers of American literature. Poes works continue to engage and baffle readers more than a century after they broke new ground in American letters. This book presents a meticulously edited and annotated selection of Poes tales and critical writings. The detailed introduction offers a critical survey of Poes oeuvre, while employing contemporary critical perspectives to contextualize and analyse key texts and thematic concerns. Supplemented with erudite critical studies by Dawn Keetley and James M. Hutchison, this collection brings the writer and his contexts closer to the reader ER -