Selected tales
By: edited with an introduction and notes by David Van Leer
Contributors: Van Leer, David, 1949-2013
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780191583117; 9780585359939
Subjects: American Horror tales
Work titles: Tales
Description: Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxv).
Table of contents: title: MS. Found in a bottle --; title: Berenicë --; title: Ligeia --; title: Man that was used up --; title: The fall of the House of Usher --; title: William Wilson --; title: The man of the crowd --; title: The murders in Rue Morgue --; title: Eleonora --; title: The masque of the Red Death --; title: The pit and the pendulum --; title: The mystery of Marie Rogêt --; title: The tell-tale heart --; title: The gold-bug --; title: The black cat --; title: A tale of the ragged mountains --; title: The purloined letter --; title: The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether --; title: The Imp of the perverse --; title: The cask of Amontillado --; title: The domain of Arnheim --; title: Von Kempelen and his discovery.