Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
An edition of Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
(1970)
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Poems Tales Criticism (Perennial Classics)
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson, and G. R. Thompson
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31 POEMS
Alone
Annabel Lee
Bells
Coliseum
Conqueror Worm
Dream
Dream-Land
Dreams
Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado
Evening Star
Fairy-Land
For Annie
Happiest Day--The Happiest Hour
Haunted Place
Introduction
Israfel
Lake--to--
Lenore
Raven
Sleeper
Sonnet--Silence
Sonnet--To Science
Spirits of the Dead
Stanzas: "in Youth Have I Known"
The City in the Sea
To--: "the Bowers Wherat, in Dreams I See"
To Helen
To One in Paradise
Ulalume--A Ballad
Valley of Unrest
31 STORIES
Assignation
Berenice
Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Descent into the Maelstrom
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Hop-Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Imp of the Perverse
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
Metzengerstein
Ms: Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Shadow--A Parable
Silence — A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Sphinx
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Tell-tale Heart
William Wilson
CRITICISM
Review of "Twice-told tales by Nathanial Hawthorne" --
The philosophy of compositions --
Excerpts from The poetic principle.
Publish Date
September 28, 2004
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Language
English
Pages
564
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!"
Table of Contents
Poems: Dreams; Spirits of the dead; Evening star; Dream within a dream; Stanzas, "In youth have I known"; Dream; "Happiest day --
the happiest hour"; Lake --
to -; Sonnet --
to science; To -, "the Bowers wherat, in dreams I see"; Fairy-land: Introduction; Alone; To Helen; Israfel; City in the sea; Sleeper; Valley of unrest; Lenore; To one in paradise; Coliseum; Haunted place; Sonnet --
silence; Conqueror worm; Dream-land; Raven; Ulalume --
a ballad; Bells; Eldorado; For Annie; Annabel Lee --
Tales: Metzengerstein, a tale in imitation of the German; Loss of breath, a tale á la Blackwood; MS, found in a bottle; Assignation (the visionary); Berenice; Some passages from the life of a lion (lionizing); Shadow --
a parable; Silence --
a fable; Ligeia; How to write a Blackwood article, a predicament; Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; Man of the crowd; Murders in the Rue Morgue; Descent into the maelström; Colloquy of Monos and Una; Never bet the devil your head, a tale with a moral; Oval portrait; Masque of the red death; Pit and the pendulum; Tell-tale heart; Black cat; Tale of the ragged mountains; Premature burial; Purloined letter; Some words with a mummy; Imp of the perverse; Facts in the case of M. Valdemar; Sphinx; Cask of Amontillado; Hop-frog, or, The eight chained ourang-outangs --
Criticism: Review of "Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne"; Philosophy of composition; Excerpts from The poetic principle --
Chronology.
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