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The fall of the House of Usher and other writings

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An edition of Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1967)

The fall of the House of Usher and other writings

poems, tales, essays, and reviews

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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In 'Tell-Tale Heart', a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. These works display Poe's startling ability to build suspense with almost nightmarish intensity.

David Galloway's introduction re-examines the myths surrounding Poe's life and reputation. This edition includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading.

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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, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American writers, American Fantasy literature, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Books, Reviews, Fiction, short stories (single author)
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Annabel Lee, Lenore, Pallas, William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Places
kingdom by the sea, Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
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Carnival, December

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Table of Contents

Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Text
POEMS
Stanzas
Sonnet — To Science
A/ Aaraaf
Romance
TO Helen
Israfel
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
Lenore
The Valley of Unrest
The Raven
Ulalume
For Annie
A Valentine
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Eldorado
TALES
MS. Found in a Bottle
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
The Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
A Descent into the Maelström
Eleonora
The Oval Portrait
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
The Black Cat
The Purloined Letter
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
ESSÄYS AND REVIEWS
Letter to B—
Georgia Scenes
The Drake—Halleck Review (excerpts)
Watkins Tottle
The Philosophy of Furniture
Wyandotté
Music
Time and Space
Twice-Told Tales
The American Drama (excerpts)
Hazlitt
The Philosophy of Composition
Song-Writing
On Imagination
The Veil of the Soul
The Poetic Principle (excerpts)
Notes

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [lvi]-lviii).
Previously published as: Selected writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

Series
Penguin classics
Copyright Date
2003

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.3
Library of Congress
PS2602 .G28 2003, PS2605

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
lviii, 488 p. ;
Number of pages
488

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3706966M
Internet Archive
fallofhouseofush0000poee_r1u6
ISBN 10
0141439815
LCCN
2003277881
OCLC/WorldCat
51272277, 1010642342
Library Thing
7060983
Goodreads
175515

Work Description

17 poems:
Al Aaraaf
Annabel Lee
Bells
City in the Sea
Eldorado
For Annie
Israfel
Lenore
Raven
Romance
Sonnet — to Science
Stanzas
The Sleeper
To Helen
Ulalume
Valentine
Valley of Unrest

19 stories:
Manuscript Found in a Bottle
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Descent into the Maelstrom
Eleonora
The Oval Portrait
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
Tell-tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
Black Cat
Purloined Letter
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog

Essays/reviews:
Letter to B—
Georgia Scenes
The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts)
Watkins Tottle
The Philosophy of Furniture
Wyandotté
Music
Time and Space
TwiceT01d Tales
The American Drama (excerpts)
Hazlitt
The Philosophy of Composition
Song-Writing
On Imagination
The Veil of the soul
The Poetic Principle (excerpts)

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