The Best of Poe
Subtitle: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
Published: March 2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781580493871
First sentence: DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Table of contents: title: SHORT STORIES; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) ............„................; title: Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841); title: The Masque of the Red Death (1842) . .. .. . .; title: The Pit and the Pendulum (1842); title: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) ..................,.; title: The Gold-Bug (1843) .. ....; title: The Black Cat; title: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844).; title: The Premature Burial; title: The Purloined Letter (1844); title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1849) .....; title: POEMS; title: A Dream (1827); title: Alone (1829); title: To Helen; title: Lenore (1831) .........................................; title: 182; title: .. ..... 183; title: . . ...........203; title: ..............204; title: .... ..216; title: Dreams (1827) ..............................................................; title: To — (1829) .........................................; title: The Coliseum (1833)..................................; title: ... 179; title: ... .. .... ...........180; title: To One In Paradise (1834)..........................................; title: The Haunted Palace (1839); title: The Conqueror Worm (1843)..................................................187; title: The Raven (1845) 189; title: Annabel Lee (1849) .................................................................193; title: The Bells (1848) .... .... ..... 196; title: For Annie (1849) 199; title: Sonnet—To Science (1845); title: Eldorado; title: To My Mother (1849); title: To — (1849); title: ..177; title: .178; title: .. 181; title: .185; title: ..186; title: ..192; title: .. 195; title: ..202; title: ..205; title: A Dream Within A Dream; title: An Enigma ..; title: Glossary 206; title: Vocabulary .