In “Shadow - A Parable”, Poe recognises the incredibility of his tale (set in ancient Egypt) by anticipating that some readers will disbelieve it and some will doubt it instead.

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The big stars for me are The Masque of the Red Death, The Oval Portrait, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. Aldous Huxley accused Poe’s style of vulgarity and bad taste, writing in an essay ‘ we should find it hard to forgive, shall we say, the wearing of a diamond ring on every finger.The Raven is a macabre poem depicting a man driven to excruciating loneliness and grief from being unable to let go of the memories of his dead lover Lenore. well, what Poe thinks the nature of the universe is, without having done any scientific work to reach his conclusions or back them up. I read and absolutely adored The Pit and the Pendulum when I was in high school, and wrote an essay about it that got me the best grade in American Lit that anyone managed to get that semester, and I was familiar with his most famous stories. Poe also shows an impressive knowledge and understanding of a deranged criminal's mind in a time when not too much was known about human psychology. The final episode describes a murder which then reveals itself as a reflection in a mirror, saying, "In me didst thou exist - and in my death, see how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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Living with his mother-in-law after his very, very young wife (a cousin he married when she was 13) died prematurely, Poe barely made enough money to survive, mostly as a critic (he was one of the first celebrated literary critics). Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. The mummy is able to prove them mistaken at every point, and that his society's inventions were far from being inferior, and frequently superior. It is however not nearly as successful as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", possibly because the standpoint taken is that of the narrator seeking to expose the true murderer, so that the element of mystery is missing.His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia. This is best exemplified in William Wilson, a story much loved by Fyodor Dostoevsky I am told (he did love a good Double narrative), where in slaying his double who is a physical manifestation of his own conscience, he slays himself.

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If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents–he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.Some Words with a Mummy (1845) was again presented as an essay, but is actually an example of Poe's satirical humour at its blackest.