Edgar Allan Poe
Edition: printing (16)
Series: Viking Portable Library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9780140150124
Copyright date: 1973
Other titles: Portable Poe
Description: "Charlatan, plagiarist, pathological liar, whimpering child, egomaniac, braggart, and irresponsible drunkard, he did what few American writers had ever tried to do before: he tapped the rich reservoir of the subconscious mind to set free the terrible images which had seldom been allowed to stalk the printed page." Thus in his introduction to this collection Philip Van Doren Stern sums up the strange genius of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's most original men of letters.

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fan- tasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this vol-ume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
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Table of contents: title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; title: CHRONOLOGY; title: INTRODUCTION; title: LETTERS; title: To John Allan. March 19, 1827; title: To John Allan. March 20, 1827; title: To John Allan. January 3, 1831; title: To John Allan. April 12, 1833; title: To William Poe. August 20, 1835; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. August 29, 1835; title: From a letter to Dr. J. E. Snodgrass. April 1, 1841; title: To Lea & Blanchard. August 13, 1841; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. April 7, 1844; title: To James Russell Lowell. July 2, 1844; title: From a letter to E. A. Duyckinck. November 13, 1845; title: To Virginia Poe. June 12, 1846; title: To N. P. Willis. December 30, 1846; title: To Mrs. Mary Louise Shew. January 29, 1847; title: From a letter to George Eveleth. January 4, 1848; title: To George Eveleth. February 29, 1848; title: To Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman. October 1,1848; title: To Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman. October 18, 1848; title: To Mrs. Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond. November 16, 1848; title: From a letter to F. W. Thomas. February 14, 1849; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 7, 1849; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 14, 1849; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 19, 1849; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. August, 1849; title: To Mrs. Maria Clemm. September, 1849; title: TALES; title: OF FANTASY; title: Edito/s Preface; title: William Wilson; title: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; title: Eleonora; title: The Oval Portrait; title: The Man of the Crowd; title: OF TERROR; title: Editor's Preface; title: Ms. Found in a Bottle; title: A Descent into the Maelström; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Premature Burial; title: OF DEATH; title: Edito/s Preface; title: The Assignation; title: Berenice; title: Morella; title: Ligeia; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: OF REVENGE AND MURDER; title: Edito/s Preface; title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Black Cat; title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop-Frog; title: OF MYSTERY AND RATIOCINATION; title: Editor's Preface; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; title: The Mystery of Marie Rogét; title: The Purloined Letter; title: The Cold-Bug; title: ARTICLES; title: Editor's Preface; title: Maelzel's Chess-Player; title: From A Few Words on Secret Writing; title: CRITICISM; title: Editor's Preface; title: The Philosophy of Composition; title: The Short Story; title: From The Poetic Principle; title: On Poets and Poetry, A Letter to B; title: POEMS; title: Edito/s Preface; title: PROSE POEMS; title: Silence—a Fable (1838); title: Shadow—a Parable (1835); title: VERSE; title: A Dream Within a Dream (1827); title: Stanzas (1827); title: "The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour" (1827); title: The Lake: To — (1827); title: Romance ( 1829); title: Fairy-Land (1829); title: To Helen (1831); title: Israfel (1831); title: The City in the Sea (1831); title: The Sleeper (1831); title: Lenore (1831); title: The valley of Unrest (1831); title: The Coliseum (1833); title: Sonnet—Silence (1840); title: Dream-Land ( 1844); title: The Raven (1845); title: A Valentine (1846); title: Ulaiume (1847); title: To — [Mrs. Marie Louise Shewl (1848); title: For Annie (1849); title: To My Mother (1849); title: Annabel Lee (1849); title: The Bells (1849); title: Alone; title: OPINIONS; title: Editor's Preface; title: The Poet's Vision; title: Genius and Madness; title: Poetry and Imagination; title: Fancy and Imagination; title: Conversation; title: The Impossibility of Writing a Truthful; title: Autobiography; title: Hero Worship; title: The Distribution of Vital Energy; title: Music and Poetry; title: Logic vs. Truth; title: On Intuition; title: Plot—A Definition; title: The Theatrical Profession; title: Between Wakefulness and Sleep; title: Man and Superman; title: The Self and the Universe; title: POE'S BOOKS WITH THEIR FIRST PUBLICATION DATES; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY