Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
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With his tales of terror, horror, death, ruin, murder, and revenge, Edgar Allan Poe defined and mastered the short story form. Many of the sixteen tales included in this collection — "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Tell-Tale Heart," for example — have become landmarks of American literature. Poe also wrote the world's first detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the paragon of that now ubiquitous character: the thinking man's sleuth. Set in the timeless, uncharted places deep within the imagination, Poe's sumptuous prose makes his work as compelling today as when it was first written. --back cover
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Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
2002, Thorndike Press
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- U.S. Hardcover Large Print edition
0786242825 9780786242825
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Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Fall of the House of Usher
Imp of the Perverse
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Sphinx
System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
Tell-tale Heart
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