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The unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
Title:
The unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
Author:
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
ISBN:
9781889372341
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Publication Information:
Birmingham, Alabama : Sweetwater Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
1178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published: Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, c1983.
Contents:
A word from the editor -- Imitation -- A dream -- Dreams -- The happiest day -- Song: to -- Stanzas -- Evening star -- The lake -- Spirits of the dead -- Tamerlane -- Alone -- To--[Should my early life seem...] -- To the river -- Sonnet: to science -- Introduction [Romance] -- Al aaraaf -- To--[The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see...] -- An acrostic -- Elizabeth -- Alone [to M--] -- Heaven [Fairy-land] -- To Helen [Stannard] -- Mysterious star! -- Israfel -- Irene [The sleeper] -- The valley Nis [The valley of unrest] -- The doomed city [The city in the sea] -- A paean -- Metzengerstein: a tale in imitation of the German -- The Duke de L'Omelette -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Loss of breath: a tale a la Blackwood -- Bon-bon: a tale -- Serenade -- Four beasts in one: the homo-cameleopard -- To---[Sleep on, sleep on, another hour-] -- Fanny -- Ms. Found in a bottle -- The visionary [The assignation] -- To one in paradise -- Berenice: a tale -- Morella -- Hymn [Sancta Maria! Turn thine eyes...] -- Lionizing: a tale -- Hans Phaall: a tale -- To Frances S. Osgood [Beloved! amid the cares...] -- King Pest the first: a tale containing an allegory -- To Elizabeth [to F----s S. O----d] [Woulds't thou be loved?...] -- Shadow: a fable -- Siope [Silence]: a fable -- Politian -- The coliseum -- Maelzel's chess player -- A review of 'Peter snook' -- Bridal ballad -- Sonnet: To Zante -- A review of Astoria by Washington Irving -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- Von Jung the mystic [Mystification] -- Ligeia -- The conqueror worm -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- The Signora Psyche Zenobia [How to write a Blackwood article] -- The scythe of time [A predicament] -- The devil in the belfry: an extravaganza -- The man that was used up: a tale of the late bugaboo and kickapoo campaign -- The fall of the house of Usher -- The haunted place -- William Wilson: a tale -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Silence: a sonnett -- The journal of Julius Rodman -- Instinct vs. reason: a black cat -- Peter Pendulum, the business man -- Cabs -- The philosophy of furniture -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into maelstrom -- The island of the fay -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the devil your hand: a tale with a moral -- Eleonora: a fable -- A succession of Sundays [Three Sundays in a week] -- Life in death [The oval protrait] -- The mask of the red death: a fantasy -- The pit and the pendulum -- The mystery of Marie Roget: a sequel to 'The murders in the Rue Morgue' -- The tell-tale heart -- Lenore -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- Morning on the Wissahiccon -- Raising the wind; or, Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- The spectacles -- Eulalie: a song -- The balloon-hoax -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- Dream-Land -- Mesmeric revelation -- The purloined letter -- The system of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether -- 'Thou art the man!' -- The oblong box -- The premature burial -- Desultory notes on cats -- The angel of the odd: an extravaganza -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq., late Editor of the Goosetherumfoodle -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Some words with a mummy -- The raven -- Some secrets of the Magazine Prison-House -- To-- [I would not lord it o'er thy heart] -- The power of words -- The imp of the perverse -- The divine right of kings -- Stanzas [To F.S.O.] -- The facts of M. Valdemar's case -- The sphinx -- To her whose name is written below -- The philosophy of composition -- The cask of Amontillado -- The landscape garden [The doman of Amheim] -- To Mrs. M. L. S--- [Of all who hail thy presence as the morning--] -- Ulalume: a ballad -- Sonnet [an enigma] -- To Marie Louse [Not long ago, the writer of these lines...] -- Mellonta Tauta -- A prediction -- To Helen [I saw thee once-once only-years ago...] -- Lines on ale -- A dream within a dream -- Landor's cottage: a pendent to The domain -- Hop-frog: or, The eight chained ourang-outangs -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Eldorado -- For Annie [Thank Heaven! the crisis--] -- X-ing a paragrab -- To my mother -- Annabel Lee -- The bells.
Abstract:
Includes short stories, poems, and other works by one of the great American writers.
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