Edgar Allan Poe; Charles Baudelaire — Oeuvres En Prose

Paris, Gallimard, 1987. Leather. A French translation of the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe in a slipcase. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, literary critic, and poet. His stories tend to be mystery-based, and he is considered the inventor of detective fiction as a genre. His best known works were Gothic in style, but he also wrote satires, hoaxes and humorous stories.A French translation of Poe's prosaic works.This collection includes his sole complete novel, 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket', as well as 'Eureka' and many of his short stories. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally lovely. Slipcase has minor shelf wear only, near fine. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .