Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven Edgar Allan Poe

A perfect and flawless, as well as timeless piece of literature, The Raven has inspired generations and for good reason. It is a classic and wonderfully flawless piece of work. It is quite possibly the greatest and most memorable work of fiction ever written. The content is there and displayed very well. There are two versions of it . . . the normal page-by-page read, as well as an interesting line-by-line read which I like. The only reason I gave this 4 stars instead of five is the overly-long and drawn out windbag of an introduction. An intro is fine, but after awhile I just kept thinking 'Lets get to the story. That's why I am here.' Honestly, the introduction bored me to tears. It wasn't even interesting. It reminded me of that monotone, droning high school teacher who won't shut the hell up and get on with the lesson. Nothing against an intro. Heck, I would have done one too, but this one was way too long and self-indulgent on the writer's part. Shame. It's not about you, man. Studying a magnificent and classic work of fiction is fine, but I didn't download a textbook. No need to make it one.