![]() Each volume features authoritative texts by the world’s greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging. ![]() The Raven and Other Poems is one of Barnes & Noble’s Collectible Editions classics. The Raven and Other Favorite Poems by Edgar Allen Poe feature a selection of Poes poetry, including Dreams, Spirits of the Dead, Evening Star, To Helen. ![]() These poems are imbued with the somber seriousness that we associate with Poe’s macabre fiction, but also with his marvelous appraisals of the mysteries of our and other worlds, and his fervent belief in undying love. Here, readers are treated to such masterpieces as “Annabel Lee,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The City in the Sea,” “Lenore,” and many more. “The Raven” is by far Poe’s best-known poem and it is one of more than forty to be found in The Raven and Other Poems, a volume that collects the best of Poe’s exercises in verse. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem “The Raven,” and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? ![]() With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. ![]()
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