An edition of Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems] (1940)

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An edition of Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems] (1940)

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Here, in one volume, are Poe's masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, and the finest lyric and narrative poetry of the ill-fated genius who was one of America's supreme writers.

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Washington Square Press
Language
English
Pages
432

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Subjects
Laments, Narrative poetry, Poetry, Grief, American poetry, American Children's poetry, Love poetry, Juvenile poetry, busts, supernatural, talking birds, ravens, American fantasy poetry, Young adult nonfiction, Fantasy poetry, Gothic poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Children's poetry, Death, short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short story, plagues, abbeys, nobility, Hematidrosis, masquerade balls, shrouds, daggers, Juvenile audience, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American Fantasy literature, Collections, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Accessible book, Fiction, short stories (single author)
People
Annabel Lee, Lenore, Pallas, William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Places
Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome, kingdom by the sea
Times
Carnival, December

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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Ellan Poe
1971-08, Washington Square Press
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Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
1970?, Washington Square Press
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
1965-01, Washington Square Press
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Table of Contents

The tell-tale heart --
The cask of Amontillado --
Hop-frog --
The black cat --
Ligeia --
The assignation --
The oval portrait --
The masque of the red death --
The fall of the house of Usher --
The murders in the Rue Morgue --
The mystery of Marie Rogêt --
The purloined letter --
The gold-bug --
Shadow-- : a parable --
MS found in a bottle --
A descent into the maelström --
The pit and the pendulum --
The sphinx --
The man of the crowd --
The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether --
William Wilson --
The raven --
Lenore --
To Helen --
Ulalume --
The bells --
Annabel Lee --
The haunted palace --
The conqueror worm --
To-- --
The valley of unrest --
The city in the sea --
The sleeper --
A dream within a dream --
Dream-land --
Eulaile --
Dreams --
Silence --
Eldorado --
Isfafel --
For Annie --
To science --
Bridal ballad --
A dream --
To the river --
To-- --
Romance --
Song --
Spirits of the dead --
To Helen --
Evening star --
Imitation --
In youth I have known one --
A pæan --
Alone.

Edition Notes

"21 short story masterpieces plus 34 narrative and lyric poems"--Cover.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.3/09, 813.39
Library of Congress
PS2602 .P6 1940b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 432 p. :
Number of pages
432

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24372562M
ISBN 10
0671727702
ISBN 13
9780671727703
LCCN
40004350
OCLC/WorldCat
274899

Work Description

21 stories:
Tell-tale Heart
Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
Black Cat
Ligeia
Assignation
The Oval Portrait .
Masque of the Red Death
Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue .
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Purloined Letter
Gold-Bug
Shadow—A Parable .
MS Found in a Bottle .
Descent into the Maelstrom
Pit and the Pendulum
The Sphinx
The Man of the Crowd
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
William Wilson

34 poems:
Alone
Annabel Lee
A Pæan
Bells
Bridal Ballad
City in the Sea
Conqueror Worm
Dream
Dream-Land
Dreams
Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado
Eulalie
Evening Star
For Annie
Haunted Palace
Imitation
In Youth I Have Known One
Israfel
Lenore
Raven
Romance
Silence
Sleeper
Song
Spirits of the Dead
To
To
To Helen
To Helen
To Science
To the River
Ulalume
Valley of Unrest

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