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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edgar Allan Poe; Patrick F Quinn |
| ISBN: | 0940450186 9780940450189 |
| OCLC Number: | 10021672 |
| Notes: | "Patrick F. Quinn wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Prelim. p. |
| Description: | 1408 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Prefaces -- Poems -- Scenes from "Politician" -- Tales and sketches. Preface to Tales of the grotesque and arabesque -- The Folio Club -- Metzengerstein -- The Duc de l'Omelette -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Loss of breath -- Bon-bon -- Four beasts in one-- the homo-cameleopard -- MS. found in a bottle -- The assignation -- Lionizing -- Shadow-- a parable -- Silence-- a fable -- Berenice -- Morella -- King Pest -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- The devil in the belfry -- The man that was used up -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Instinct vs reason-- a black cat -- The business man -- The philosophy of furniture -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into the maelström -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the devil your head -- Eleonora -- Three Sundays in a week -- The oval portrait -- 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 -- Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- The spectacles. The oblong box -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains -- The premature burial -- The purloined letter -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Mesmeric revelation -- "Thou art the man" -- The balloon-hoax -- The angel of the odd -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Some words with a mummy -- The power of words -- The imp of the perverse -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The sphinx -- The cask of Amontillado -- The domain of Arnheim -- Mellonta Tauta -- Landor's cottage -- Hop-frog -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- 'X-ing a paragrab' -- The light-house -- Plate articles. Some account of Stonehenge, the giant's dance -- The Island of the Fay -- Morning on the Wissahiccon -- Byron and Miss Chaworth -- The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- The journal of Julius Rodman -- Eureka : a prose poem. |
| Series Title: | The Library of America. |
| Other Titles: | Selections. |
| Responsibility: | Edgar Allan Poe. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Preface (Tamerlane and other poems1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).
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