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The complete tales & poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Title:
The complete tales & poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Uniform Title:
Works. 2002
ISBN:
9780785814535
Publication Information:
Edison, N.J. : Castle Books, c2002.
Physical Description:
xiv, 842 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- Balloon-hoax -- Mesmeric revelation -- Ms. found in a bottle -- Descent into the maelström -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Gold-bug -- Facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Mystery of Marie Rogêt -- Fall of the House of Usher -- Purloined letter -- Tell-tale heart -- Black cat -- Imp of the perverse -- Premature burial -- Island of the fay -- Cask of Amontillado -- Pit and the pendulum -- Oval portrait -- Masque of the red death -- Assignation -- System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Mystification -- How to write a Blackwood article -- Predicament -- Literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq.-- Diddling -- X-ing a paragrab -- Angel of the odd -- Loss of breath -- Business man -- Mellonta Tauta -- Man that was used up -- Maelzel's chess-player -- Power of words -- Conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Colloquy of Monos and Una -- Silence, a fable -- Shadow, a parable -- Tale of Jerusalem -- Philosophy of furniture -- Sphinx -- Man of the crowd -- "Thou art the man" -- Hop-frog -- Never bet the Devil your head -- Four beasts in one -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Some words with a mummy -- Bon-bon -- Magazine-writing, Peter Snook -- Review of Stephens' "Arabia petræe" -- Quacks of Helicon, a satire -- Astoria -- Domain of Arnheim -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- Ligeia -- Berenice -- Morella -- Eleonara -- Metzengerstein -- Tale of the Ragged Mountains -- Oblong box -- Duc de l'Omelette -- Spectacles -- King pest -- Three Sundays in a week -- Devil in the belfry -- Lionizing -- Narrative of a Gordon Pym.

Raven -- Lenore -- Valentine -- Hymn -- Coliseum -- To-- -- Ulalume -- To Helen -- Enigma -- Annabel Lee -- To one in paradise -- Bells -- To my mother -- Haunted palace -- Conqueror worm -- To F-s S. O-d -- Valley of unrest -- City in the sea -- Sleeper -- Dream within a dream -- Silence -- Dream-land -- Eulalie -- To Zante -- Bridal ballad -- To F-- -- Eldorado -- Israfel -- For Annie -- Scenes from "Politian" -- Sonnet to science -- Aaraaf -- To the River-- -- Tamerlane -- Dream -- Lake to-- -- To M.L.S.-- Spirits of the dead -- Dreams -- Evening star -- Alone -- Pæan -- Fairy-land -- Romance -- "In youth I have known one."
Summary:
One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detective story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"--remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter." "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together with less well-known masterpieces like "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym" and "Ligeia," which is now recognised as one of the first science-fiction stories, a total of seventy-three tales in all, plus fifty-three poems and a generous sampling of Poe's essays, criticism and journalistic writings.
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