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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:
Selected works. 1967
Publisher:
Penguin,
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin, 2003.
Publication Date:
2003
Physical Description:
lviii, 488 pages ; 20 cm.
General Note:
Previously published as: Selected writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
Contents:
POEMS: Stanzas -- Sonnet - To Science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- 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 Maelstrom -- 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 -- ESSAYS AND REVIEWS: Letter to B -- Geogia Scenes -- The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts) -- Watkins Tottle -- The Philosophy of Furniture -- Wyandatte -- 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).
Summary:
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.
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