Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others

The character *Allan Quatermain* is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel *King Solomon's Mines*. In this adventure novel named after him, Quatermain longs for a return to the wilderness after losing his son. He talks a number of companions into joining him and they journey inland from Africa's

Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of huma

_The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe_ , by **Edgar Allan Poe** , is part of the _Barnes & Noble Classics_ __ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted ext

EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefu