An edition of Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / William Wilson) (1930)

Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.

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An edition of Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / William Wilson) (1930)

Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.

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New Pocket Classics that includes biographic essay on Poe and a selected bibliography.

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The Macmillan Company
Language
/languages/eng
Pages
357

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Subjects

short stories, aristocracy, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, Mystery and detective stories, monograms

People

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

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Lofoten, Norway, Paris, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome

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Carnival
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Cover of: Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.
Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.
1944, The Macmillan Company
in /languages/eng
Cover of: Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.
Tales [by] Edgar Allan Poe, revised by H. Y. Moffett, illustrated by A. Gladys Peck.
1930, The Macmillan Company
in /languages/eng

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First Sentence

"Poe's character is the most complex that has yet appeared among American writers and his genius is the most elusive and individual."

Table of Contents

Edgar Allan Poe
Page xi
A Selected Bibliography
Page xlviii
Tales. The Fall of the House of Usher
Page 3
Tales. Ligeia
Page 37
Tales. The Masque of the Red Death
Page 66
Tales. The Cask of Amontillado
Page 79
Tales. The Pit and the Pendulum
Page 93
Tales. William Wilson
Page 122
Tales. A Descent Into The Maelstrom
Page 160
Tales. The Gold Bug
Page 192
Tales. The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Page 256
Tales. The Purloined Letter
Page 315
Notes
Page 351

Edition Notes

Half title : New pocket classics.

"Published February, 1901; revised edition with illustrations published April, 1930."

"A selected bibliography" : p. [xlviii]

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[New York]

The Physical Object

Pagination
xlvii, [1], 357 p.
Number of pages
357
Dimensions
4.5x6.5

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23227218M

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OL41007W

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Cask of Amontillado
Descent into the Maelstrom
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold Bug
Ligeia
Masque of the Red Death
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Pit and the Pendulum
Purloined Letter
William Wilson

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