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"A Modern library giant"--Jacket. |
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Prose: Unparelleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- Gold-bug -- Balloon-hoax -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Mesmeric revelation -- Facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Thousand-and-second tale and Scheherazade -- MS. found in a bottle -- Descent into the maelstrom -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Mystery of Marie Roget -- Purloined letter -- Black cat -- Fall of the House of Usher -- Pit and the pendulum -- Premature burial -- Masque of the red death -- Cask of Amontillado -- Imp of the perverse -- Island of the fay -- Oval portrait -- Assignation -- Tell-tale heart -- System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Literary life of Thungum Bob, Esq. -- How to write a blackwood article -- Predicament -- Mystification -- X-ing a paragrab -- Diddling -- Angel of the odd -- Mellonta tauta -- Loss of breath -- Man that was used up -- Business man -- Maelzel's chess-player -- Power of words -- Colloquy of Monos and Una -- Conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Shadow - a parable -- Silence - a fable -- Philosophy of furniture -- Tale of Jerusalem. |
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Prose: Sphinx -- Man of the crowd -- Never bet the devil your head -- "Thou art the man" -- Hop-frog -- Four beasts in one ; the homo-camelopard -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Bon-bon -- Some words with a mummy -- Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraea" -- Magazine-writing - Peter Snook -- Quacks of Helicon - a satire -- Astoria -- Domain of Arnheim, or the landscape garden -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- Berenice -- Eleonora -- Ligeia -- Morella -- Metzengerstein -- Tale of the ragged mountains -- Spectacles -- Duc de L'Omelette -- Oblong box -- King Pest -- Three Sundays in a week -- Devil in the belfry -- Lionizing -- Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. |
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Poetry: Raven -- Lenore -- Hymn -- Valentine -- Coliseum -- To Helen -- To -- -- Ulalume -- Bells -- Enigma -- Annabel Lee -- To my mother -- Haunted palace -- Conqueror worm -- To F--S S. O--D -- To one in paradise -- Valley of unrest -- City in the sea -- Sleeper -- Silence -- Dream within a dream -- Dream-land -- To Zante -- Eulalie -- Eldorado -- Israfel -- For Annie -- To -- -- Bridal ballad -- To F-- -- Scenes from "Politian" |
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Poems written in youth: Sonnet - to science -- Al aaraaf -- To the river -- Tamerlane -- To -- -- Dream -- Romance -- Fairy land -- Lake-- to-- -- Song -- To M.L.S. -- Spirits of the dead -- To Helen -- Evening star -- Happiest day -- Imitation -- Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius Translation from the Greek -- Dreams -- "In youth I have known one" -- Paean -- To Isadore -- Alone. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Poetic works.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Tales.
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ISBN |
9780679600077
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0679600078
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