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Tales Of Illusion 4 editions

Cover of: Tales Of Illusion by Edgar Allan Poe
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From the book:THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. They are with propriety handled only when the severity and majesty of Truth sanctify and sustain them. We thrill, for example, with the most intense of "pleasurable pain" over the accounts of the Passage of the Beresina, of the Earthquake at Lisbon, of the Plague at London, of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the Black Hole at Calcutta. But in these accounts it is the fact - it is the reality - it is the history which excites. As inventions, we should regard them with simple abhorrence. I have mentioned some few of the more prominent and august calamities on record; but in these it is the extent, not less than the character of the calamity, which so vividly impresses the fancy. I need not remind the reader that, from the long and weird catalogue of human miseries, I might have selected many individual instances more replete with essential suffering than any of these vast generalities of disaster.

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4 editions First published in 2004

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Cover of: Tales Of Illusion
2004, 1st World Library
Tales Of Illusion
Perfect Paperback in English
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September 1, 2004, 1st World Library - Literary Society
Tales Of Illusion
Paperback in English
Cover of: Tales Of Illusion
July 1, 2005, 1st World Library - Literary Society
Tales Of Illusion
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Tales of Illusion
2006, 1st World Library
Tales of Illusion
eBook in English

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