![]() ![]() While an examination of his more fantastic writing may follow, it is his most famous works, his Gothic tales, that we will be examining thus. As most of his work was published in different magazines and periodicals, it can probably be assumed that this was an attempt to fit the tone of specific publications, or perhaps to simply reach a wider audience. He offers a selection of different genres to his reader. This is perhaps the most surprising aspect of Poe’s work, considering his reputation as a horror writer. Standard works of fiction, in other words. ![]() While many of Poe’s stories, his most famous works in any case, are explorations of mankind’s most primal fears, there are others that act simply as windows into the everyday of the mid-nineteenth century. There were some stories of Poe that were not to my taste, yet I could appreciate the way in which they were constructed and also the point that they were trying to make. At times, reading through these tales was a slog and felt more like work than leisure.īut it is the kind of work that is incredibly satisfying upon completion. The language, while beautiful in an often quite twisted way, is old-fashioned and occasionally outdated. At 763 pages, reading this tome of 19th century writing is not a task that should be considered lightly. It was with an air of exultation that I turned the last page of The Masque of Red Death and finally finished all of the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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