<story><title>Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edgar-allen-poe-seashell-book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>If you’re interested in reading Poe’s non-poetry fiction, I put together all of his short stories and novellas into a free&amp;#x2F;libre compilation for Standard Ebooks: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;ebooks&amp;#x2F;edgar-allan-poe&amp;#x2F;short-fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;ebooks&amp;#x2F;edgar-allan-poe&amp;#x2F;short-fict...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I personally prefer the writing of Leonid Andreyev (described as Russia’s answer to Poe). Coincidentally, I’ve put together a short fiction compilation for him too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;ebooks&amp;#x2F;leonid-andreyev&amp;#x2F;short-fiction&amp;#x2F;herman-bernstein_alexandra-linden_l-a-magnus_k-walter_w-h-lowe_the-russian-review_archibald-j-wolfe_john-cournos_r-s-townsend_maurice-magnus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;standardebooks.org&amp;#x2F;ebooks&amp;#x2F;leonid-andreyev&amp;#x2F;short-fict...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edgar-allen-poe-seashell-book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmp65535</author><text>Similarly, I&amp;#x27;ve been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I&amp;#x27;m fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;driftwheeler.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;driftwheeler.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Other projects I&amp;#x27;ve published have a trickle of users. But this app, published in 2017, has a continuously growing population of users from all over the world. I get email every day asking whether soft1 is the only server, thanking me, suggesting improvements, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s ironic, and there is a difficult lesson to be learned from this reality.</text></comment>