The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Including the Choicest of His Critical Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Including the Choicest of His Critical Essays The present edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe is more complete than any yet published in this country. It not only gives the whole of the poems and stories which have been left us by this fine genius, but it also contains some critical essays which will be new to English readers. It is well known that Poe spent some years of his life in a school at Stoke Newington, near London, but neither his biographers nor any of the pilgrims - his admirers - who visit this quiet Quaker suburb in memory of the poet, have ever been able to identify "the quaint old house with Elizabethan gables" which he describes in one of his "Tales of Mystery." By a fortunate circumstance the publisher of the present volume stumbled upon an abstract of the leases granted by the Lord of the Manor sixty years since, and amongst the entries is: - "The Rev. John Bransby of the School in Church Street, and Ground in Edward's Lane, 21 years lease with 10 additional, expires 25 March, 1837." As "Bransby" was the name mentioned by Poe, this gave the clue at once, and the house was soon identified, but not as having "Elizabethan gables, " described in the story - partly autobiographical - of "William Wilson." The actual house is a roomy old structure of Queen Anne's time, and remains internally in very nearly the same state as when the poet was there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.