| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 724 pages) : illustrations |
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[pt. I.] Collected works, stories and poems. The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- The gold bug -- Four beasts in one; the homo-cameleopard -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The mystery of Marie Rogêt -- The balloon hoax -- MS. found in a bottle -- The oval portrait -- The purloined letter -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- A descent into the maelström -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Mesmeric revelation -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The black cat -- The fall of the House of Usher -- Silence: a fable -- The masque of the red death -- The cask of Amontillado -- The imp of the perverse -- The island of the Fay -- The assignation (the visionary) -- The pit and the pendulum -- The premature burial -- The domain of Arnheim -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- The tell-tale heart -- Berenice -- Eleonora -- Narrative of A. Gordon -- Pym -- Ligeia -- Morella -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The specacles -- King pest: a tale containing an allegory -- Three Sundays in a week -- The devil in the belfry -- Lionizing: some passages in the life of a lion -- X-ing a paragrab -- Metzengerstein -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- How to write a Blackwood article -- A predicament -- Mystification -- Diddling: considered as one of the exact sciences -- The angel of the odd -- Mellonta Tauta -- The Duc de L-Omelette -- The oblong box -- Loss of breath: a tale neither in nor out of "Blackwood" -- The man that was used up: a tale of the late bugaboo and kickapoo campaign -- The business man -- Maelzel's chess-player -- The power of words -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Shadow: a parable -- Philosophy of furniture -- A tale of Jerusalem -- The Sphinx -- Hop-frog -- The man of the crowd -- Never bet the devil your head -- Thou art the man -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Bon-bon -- Some words with a mummy |
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[pt. II.] Poems. Poems of later life : The raven ; The bells ; Ulalume ; To Helen ; Annabel Lee ; A valentine ; An enigma ; To my mother ; For Annie ; To F-- ; To Frances S. Osgood ; Eldorado ; Eulalie ; A dream within a dream ; To M.L.S. ; To -- ; The city in the sea ; The sleeper ; Bridal ballad -- Poems of manhood : Lenore ; To one in paradise ; The coliseum ; The haunted palace ; The conqueror worm ; Silence ; Dream-land ; Hymn ; To Zante -- Poems of youth : Sonnet to science ; Al Aaraaf ; Tamerlane ; To Helen ; The valley of unrest ; Israfel ; To -- ; To -- ; To the river ; Song ; Spirits of the dead ; A dream ; Romance ; Fairy-land ; The lake -- to -- ; Evening star ; "The happiest day" ; Imitation ; Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius ; Dreams ; "In youth I have known one" ; A Paean |
| Summary |
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of?The Raven" to the persistent fright of?The Tell-Tale Heart," his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of the darker side of life that remain meaningful today. This Canterbury Classics edition of Edgar Allan Poe collects some of his best-known work?from?Annabel Lee" to?The Fall of the House of Usher, "?Lenore" to?The Pit and the Pendulum," and many, many more. Poe's writings were truly original-and this unique book is the perfect look at his uncommon genius.<B |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fantasy literature, American.
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Horror tales, American.
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Fantasy literature, American
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Horror tales, American
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| Genre/Form |
Horror fiction
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Horror fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Odasso, Adrienne J
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| ISBN |
9781607108733 |
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1607108739 |
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