An edition of Selected Tales (1998)

Selected Tales

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An edition of Selected Tales (1998)

Selected Tales

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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Van Leer

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of horror and detective fiction.

As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Using the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence, Poe is less interested in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem 'mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular — 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', and 'The Purloined Letter ' — alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.

• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES
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English
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338

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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 self-destructive behavior metaphors coroners hanging burial vaults catalepsy dragons hermitages heroic romances hysteria knights maces psychogenic death tarns Revenge cats short story unreliable narrators self-hatred gallows obsessive-compulsive disorder monomania fixation Mystery and detective stories monograms American fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, short stories (single author) Long Now Manual for Civilization

People

William Wilson Von Kempelen Lieutenant Maury Father Time Prince Prospero Roderick Usher Madeline Usher Ethelred Eleonora Ermengarde Mr. Ellison Mrs. Ellison Seabright Ellison Montresor Fortunato Luchresi Lady Fortunato Egaeus Berenice C. Auguste Dupin Minister D— Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

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Paris Valley of the Many-Colored Grass Heaven Toledo England Eton College Oxford University of Oxford Rome

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology Q/'Edgar Allan Poe
SELECTED TALES
MS. Found in a Ik)ttle
Berenice
Morella
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
The Fall ofthe House ofUsher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Eleonora
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
The Black Cat
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Purloined Letter
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Imp of the Perverse
The Cask of Amontillado
The Domain of Arnheim
Hop-Frog
Von Kempelen and his Disu»very
Explanatory Notes

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxv).
UK/USA

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2612 .A3 1998, PS2612.A3 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxviii, 338 p. ;
Number of pages
338

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL692448M
Internet Archive
selectedtales0000poee_f2t2
ISBN 10
0192832247
ISBN 13
9780192832245
LCCN
97039648
OCLC/WorldCat
1159792495, 37560274
LibraryThing
15559
Goodreads
58881340

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OL21184008W

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MS. Found in a Ik)ttle
Berenice
Morella
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
Eleonora
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Tell-tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
Black Cat
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Purloined Letter
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Imp of the Perverse
Cask of Amontillado
Domain of Arnheim
Hop-Frog
Von Kempelen and His Discovery

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