Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Subtitle: Poems Tales Criticism (Perennial Classics)
Contributors: G. R. Thompson (Editor, Introduction)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: September 28, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780060727857
First sentence: Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
Description: Presents a selection of the poems and short stories by nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe including "The Raven," "Lenore," "Eldorado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado."
Table of contents: title: Poems: Dreams; Spirits of the dead; Evening star; Dream within a dream; Stanzas, "In youth have I known"; Dream; "Happiest day --; title: the happiest hour"; Lake --; title: to -; Sonnet --; title: to science; To -, "the Bowers wherat, in dreams I see"; Fairy-land: Introduction; Alone; To Helen; Israfel; City in the sea; Sleeper; Valley of unrest; Lenore; To one in paradise; Coliseum; Haunted place; Sonnet --; title: silence; Conqueror worm; Dream-land; Raven; Ulalume --; title: a ballad; Bells; Eldorado; For Annie; Annabel Lee --; title: Tales: Metzengerstein, a tale in imitation of the German; Loss of breath, a tale á la Blackwood; MS, found in a bottle; Assignation (the visionary); Berenice; Some passages from the life of a lion (lionizing); Shadow --; title: a parable; Silence --; title: a fable; Ligeia; How to write a Blackwood article, a predicament; Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; Man of the crowd; Murders in the Rue Morgue; Descent into the maelström; Colloquy of Monos and Una; Never bet the devil your head, a tale with a moral; Oval portrait; Masque of the red death; Pit and the pendulum; Tell-tale heart; Black cat; Tale of the ragged mountains; Premature burial; Purloined letter; Some words with a mummy; Imp of the perverse; Facts in the case of M. Valdemar; Sphinx; Cask of Amontillado; Hop-frog, or, The eight chained ourang-outangs --; title: Criticism: Review of "Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne"; Philosophy of composition; Excerpts from The poetic principle --; title: Chronology.