This edition "The Raven" includes: - Graphic Illustrations - Historical information about the author and the story.Edgar Allen Poe's masterful poem, “The Raven”, is a strange and haunting story of lost love. It tells of a distraught young man, who, while lamenting the loss of his lover, Lenore, is visited by a talking Raven, adding a supernatural element to an already mysterious experience. The story traces the man's slow, sorrowful descent into madness, and the Raven adds to the young man's distress with its repetition of the word “Nevermore”. Since its first day in print, “The Raven” has stirred the imagination of its readers and caused endless debate about the reasons behind its creation, and about why the Raven itself is included. The narrator of the poem obsesses with his need to remember his lost lover, feeling the deep pain of his loss. At the same time, the Raven taunts him with the single word “Nevermore”, pushing the young man deeper into the darker depths of his soul. This new edition of “The Raven” is a reproduction of the collaboration between Edgar Allen Poe and the great illustrator Gustave Dore´, published in 1884. The Illustrations depict the images conjured by the equally exquisite words of Poe's mysterious and haunting poem of sorrow, intrigue and undying devotion to the young man's love, the lost Lenore. “The Raven” has touched the hearts of readers continuously since its creation, appealing to the fascination of the darker feelings and imaginings dredged up from the depths of one's psyche by sorrow and desperation, uncertainty and fear of the unknown. Edgar Allen Poe, after writing this masterful poem, continued his literary career with other strange and captivating stories of a Gothic nature. This was the story that marked him forever as a master of stories of the supernatural.