Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1975 M09 12 - 1040 pages
One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie 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-known masterpieces like "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym," and "Ligeia," which is now recognized 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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Contents

The BalloonHoax
3
3
40
Mesmeric Revelation
88
The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar
96
The ThousandandSecond Tale of Scheherazade
104
MS Found in a Bottle
118
A Descent into the Maelström
127
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
141
Four Beasts in One The HomoCamelopard
510
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
517
BonBon
522
Some Words with a Mummy
535
Review of Stephens Arabia Petræa
549
MagazineWritingPeter Snook
564
The Quacks of HeliconA Satire
574
Astoria
582

The Mystery of Marie Roget
171
Al Aaraaf
182
The Purloined Letter
208
The Black
223
A Dream
233
The Oval Portrait
290
Romance
293
The TellTale Heart
303
Diddling
367
The Angel of the Odd
376
Mellonta Tauta
384
Loss of Breath
395
The Man that Was Used Up
405
The Business Man
413
Maelzels ChessPlayer
421
The Power of Words
440
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
444
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
452
ShadowA Parable
457
Silence A Fable
459
Philosophy of Furniture
462
A Tale of Jerusalem
467
The Sphinx
471
The Man of the Crowd
475
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
482
Thou Art the Man
490
HopFrog
502
The Domain of Arnheim or The Landscape Garden
604
Landors Cottage
616
William Wilson
626
Berenice
642
Eleonora
649
Ligeia
654
Morella
667
Metzengerstein
672
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
679
The Spectacles
688
The Duc De L Omelette
708
King Pest
720
The Lake
724
Three Sundays in a Week
730
The Devil in the Belfry
736
Lionizing
743
L
873
Preface to the Poems
887
The Rationale of Verse
908
POEMS
915
The Raven
943
To Helen
949
An Enigma
957
The Valley of Unrest
963
To Zante
969
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius Translation from
1020
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Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.

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