Monday 25 October 2010

Most famous work

As part of trying to pick a story and or deside on a script im going to read a large amount of Poes work. Here is a list classed as his best works, and when i can i shall type up my notes on each play, prose or poem i read. and if i choose to create a new piece from a selection of his work then i shall state which works it comes from.

Tales
"The Black Cat"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"A Descent into the Maelström"
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Gold-Bug"
"Hop-Frog"
"Ligeia"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Mystery of Marie RogĂȘt"
"The Oval Portrait"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"

Poetry
"Al Aaraaf"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Bells"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Conqueror Worm"
"A Dream Within a Dream"
"Eldorado"
"Eulalie"
"The Haunted Palace"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"Tamerlane"
"The Raven"
"Ulalume"

Other works
Politian (1835) - Poe's only play
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) - Poe's only complete novel
"The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) - A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) - Essay
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) - Essay
"The Poetic Principle" (1848) - Essay
"The Light-House" (1849) - Poe's last incomplete work

infact wikisource seem to have a list of all of poes collected work sorted into catagories! alot of reading for me!
wikisource (allan poe works)

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