Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales” includes the best prose works by the famous American writer, such as “The Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” “Silence,” “The Spectacles,” and “The Purloined Letter.”
Edgar Allan Poe was a person of dazzling talent and a tragic fate. His pen produced more than seventy short stories that gave rise to many literary schools. The founder of the detective genre and of science fiction, a brilliant poet, critic, and journalist—Edgar Poe has, for more than a century and a half, remained one of the most widely read authors in the world.