One day the rain just didn t stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn t the worst part. Even more terrifying was what the soaking rains drove up from beneath the earth -
The conqueror worm: poem
β Scribed by Edgar Allan Poe
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada;Harper Perennial
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 9 KB
- Edition
- 19
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1443441236
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A meditation on death and mortality, "The Conqueror Worm" describes a cryptic and ghoulish play that represents the inevitability of death.
Despite the fact that his first published works were books of poetry, during his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe was recognized more for his literary criticism and prose than his poetry. However, Poe's poetic works have since become as well-known as his famous stories, and reflect similar themes of mystery and the macabre.
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