The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 — Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius," as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.