I think Poe's genius hardly needs discussion on this forum.So, I offer a small review on the physical book itself.As another reviewer mentioned, there are no annotations.You will have to translate (or find on the Net) the Latin,the French, etc., yourself, though you can skip them andstill understand the story. I'm no Poe scholar, so I don'tknow which works, if any, were excluded from the book, butall of my favorites are here ("The Tell Tale Heart," "TheFall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," etc.) and severalmore that I've never heard of until now.This is a solid volume, containing some of the best shortstories ever written in English and I've enjoyed readingthem immensely.5 out of 5.