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Books about Edgar Allan Poe:

• Myths and Reality: The Mysterious Mr. Poe (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1987), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mabbott as Poe Scholar: The Early Years (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1980), by Maureen Cobb Mabbott (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)
• Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (illustrated HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934), by David Kelly Jackson, contrib. by J. H. Whitty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe (Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationery Co., 1909), by Mary Newton Stanard (Gutenberg text)
• Edgar A. Poe: A Study (San Francisco: Printed by B. Brough, 1921), by John W. Robertson
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• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
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• Short Studies of American Authors (enlarged edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1888), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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• Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (1899), by Sherwin Cody (Gutenberg text)
• Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1899), by Sherwin Cody
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• American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edgar Allan Poe (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917), by Hanns Heinz Ewers, trans. by Adele Guggenheimer Lewisohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeiana and Fakes (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1940), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, contrib. by Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, contrib. by John E. Reilly (HTML at Virginia)
• Material by and About Edgar Allan Poe to be Found in the Library of Columbia University (New York: Columbia Library, 1909), by Clara W. Bragg
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• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Contemporary Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeana and Fakes (revised edition; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1943), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar A. Poe: A Study (San Francisco: Printed by B. Brough, 1921), by John W. Robertson
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• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Contemporary Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeana and Fakes (revised edition; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1943), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliographical Check-List of First Editions of Edgar Allan Poe (A Census of First Editions and Source Materials by Edgar Allan Poe in American Collections v1; 1932), by Charles F. Heartman and Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeiana and Fakes (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1940), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, contrib. by Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987), by Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 2008), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by John Ward Ostrom, Burton R. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye
  • Volume I (1824-1846): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 1966), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by John Ward Ostrom
  • Volume I (1824-1845): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
• On Poe: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Louis J. Budd and Edwin Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Poe and Our Times: Influences and Affinities (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1986), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)

• Poe at Work: Seven Textual Studies (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1978), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)

• The Raven (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., c1943), by Chancellor Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Valley of Unrest, by Douglass Sherley, ed. by John Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poe and Our Times: Influences and Affinities (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1986), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Poe as a Literary Critic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946), by John Esten Cooke, ed. by N. Bryllion Fagin (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writings in The Broadway Journal: Nonfictional Prose (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v3 and 4; New York: Gordian Press, 1986), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Burton R. Pollin
  • Part 1 (The Text): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Part 2 (The Annotations): HTML with commentary at aepoe.org

• Poe Studies (partial serial archives)
• Poe Newsletter (partial serial archives)

• The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, c1989), by Michael Deas (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Valley of Unrest, by Douglass Sherley, ed. by John Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

Books by Edgar Allan Poe:

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Al Aaraaf, by Edgar Allan Poe: Reproduced From the Edition of 1829, With A Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society series 1 v9; New York: Columbia University Press, 1933), ed. by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with a short introduction; New York: Carlton House, ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, also contrib. by George Pope Morris, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with an extensive introduction; ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, also contrib. by George Pope Morris, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Black Cat (multiple texts) (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Brevities: Pinakidia; Marginalia; Fifty Suggestions; and Other Works (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v2; New York: Gordian Press, 1985), ed. by Burton R. Pollin (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, ed.: Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review (7 volumes, 1837-1840; include the first issue titled "Graham's Magazine"), also ed. by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Cask of Amontillado (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 2008), ed. by John Ward Ostrom, Burton R. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye
  • Volume I (1824-1846): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (3 volumes; Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969-1978), ed. by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, and Maureen Cobb Mabbott (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by J. H. Whitty (HTML at Michigan)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Including Essays on Poetry, ed. by John H. Ingram (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (17 volumes; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1902), ed. by James Albert Harrison
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Essays, English and American (Harvard Classics v28), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward A. Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Henry David Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Fall of the House of Usher (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Famous Modern Ghost Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), ed. by Dorothy Scarborough, also contrib. by Algernon Blackwood, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Leonid Andreyev, William Fryer Harvey, Anatole France, Fitz James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Myla Jo Closser, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Machen, and Guy de Maupassant
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1924), by Vere H. Collins, also contrib. by M. R. James, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs. Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. W. Jacobs, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, and Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: The Gift, ed. by Eliza Leslie (full serial archives)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Gold-Bug (multiple texts) (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Histoires Extraordinaires (in French), trans. by Charles Baudelaire (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Imaginary Voyages: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaall; The Journal of Julius Rodman (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v1, reissued with minor revisions and corrections; New York: Gordian Press, 1994), ed. by Burton R. Pollin (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 1966), ed. by John Ward Ostrom
  • Volume I (1824-1845): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1921), ed. by Carl Van Vechten, also contrib. by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Algernon Blackwood, Honoré de Balzac, Booth Tarkington, G. H. Powell, Mark Twain, Thomas A. Janvier, W. H. Hudson, W. L. Alden, Peggy Bacon, and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Masque of the Red Death (multiple texts)
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Ms. Found in a Bottle (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (multiple texts) (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (New York: Harper and Bros., 1838) (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: The Oxford Book of American Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), ed. by Brander Matthews, also contrib. by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Theodore Winthrop, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles William Eliot, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C. Brownell, Edward Sandford Martin, Samuel McChord Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nicholas Murray Butler, and William P. Trent
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Pit and the Pendulum (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man That Was Used Up (only issue of this intended serial edition; Philadelphia: W. H. Graham, 1843)
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  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Purloined Letter (HTML with commentary at americanliterature.com)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Raven (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1884), contrib. by Edmund Clarence Stedman, illust. by Gustave Doré
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Selections From Poe, Edited, With Biographical and Critical Introduction and Notes, ed. by J. Montgomery Gambrill (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Short-Stories, ed. by Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, also contrib. by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Frank R. Stockton, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Short Stories: Journal of Julius Rodman, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, and Twelve Other Stories (New York and Akron: MacLellan Book co., c1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Short Stories, Old and New (1916), ed. by C. Alphonso Smith, also contrib. by Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Brown, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, and O. Henry (Gutenberg text)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: The Short-Story (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1916), ed. by William Patterson Atkinson, also contrib. by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Tales (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845)
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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840)
  • both volumes: HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Tell-Tale Heart (HTML with video at poemuseum.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, contrib.: Weird Tit-Bits: American (inside headers, and other editions, use title "Weird Tales"; New York and London: White and Allen. n.d.), also contrib. by Washington Irving, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, An Old Chum, and William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (large online collection of works and commentary), ed. by Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (Md.) (HTML at eapoe.org)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (4 volumes; London: A and C. Black, c1899), ed. by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes (Collier, 1903 or 1904)
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
  • volume 4: Gutenberg text
  • volume 5: Gutenberg text
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Writings in The Broadway Journal: Nonfictional Prose (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v3 and 4; New York: Gordian Press, 1986), ed. by Burton R. Pollin
  • Part 1 (The Text): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Part 2 (The Annotations): HTML with commentary at aepoe.org
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849: Writings in The Southern Literary Messenger: Nonfictional Prose (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v5; New York: Gordian Press, 1997), ed. by Burton R. Pollin and J. V. Ridgely (HTML with commentary at aepoe.org)

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