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Title:
The fall of the House of Usher and other writings : poems, tales, essays, and reviews
Author:
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
ISBN:
9780141439815
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. 1967
Physical Description:
lviii, 488 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics

Penguin classics.
Contents:
Chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- A note on the text -- [Pt. 1] Poems -- Stanzas -- Sonnet, to science -- Al 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 -- [Pt. 2] 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 -- [Pt. 3] Essays 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.
Abstract:
Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
Added Author:
Format:
Book
Language:
English
General Note:
Previously published as: Selected writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
Publication Date as Range:
2003

2003,

1967
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