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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Poe, Edgar Allan

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HorrorScience FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1727494148
ISBN13: 9781727494143
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 24 2018
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The epithets Grotesque and Arabesque will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published. But from the fact that, during a period of some two or three years, I have written five-and-twenty short stories whose general character may be so briefly defined, it cannot be fairly inferred - at all events it is not truly inferred - that I have, for this species of writing, any inordinate, or indeed any peculiar taste or prepossession. I may have written with an eye to this republication in volume form, and may, therefore, have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design. This is, indeed, the fact; and it may even happen that, in this manner, I shall never compose anything again. I speak of these things here, because I am led to think it is this prevalence of the Arabesque in my serious tales, which has induced one or two critics to tax me, in all friendliness, with what they have been pleased to term Germanism and gloom. The charge is in bad taste, and the grounds of the accusation have not been sufficiently considered. Let us admit, for the moment, that the phantasy-pieces now given are Germanic, or what not. Then Germanism is the vein for the time being. To morrow I may be anything but German, as yesterday I was everything else.

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