Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1970?
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 821
ISBN-13: 9780385074070
Copyright date: 1966?
Work titles: Works.
Description: AMONG the great masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe retains his preeminence after more than a century. Ligeia, The Tell- Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado brought the suspense story to a point of artistic perfection not since surpassed. Every sentence carries the reader irresistibly toward a climax which continues to build to the last line, even the final word.

Poe is at the same time the father of another major branch of modern fiction: the detective story. His character Dupin, original exponent of scientific deduction, appeared a generation before Sherlock Holmes, and in Murders in the Rue Morgue Poe created, at the very birth of the genre, one of its greatest master- pieces. Rarely since has the detective story attained the literary distinction which its inventor brought to it.

Besides mystery and suspense, Poe was adept at fantasy, humor, satire and (The Adventure of Hans Pfaal ) science fiction. In addition to all this he wrote a first-rate adventure yarn, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, which is actually long enough to classify as a novel.

Finally, there is Poe's lyric poetry which at its best — The Raven, UlItone, Annabel Lee, The Bells — achieves astonishing rnusical effects sea reelv if ever equaled in words. The shortness of Poe's life (he died tragically at forty) and his failure to produce any single "major" work haw somewhat obscured the true magnitude of his total production. Taken together, Poe's short stories cornprise one of the half dozen great works of literature by an American writer, and his verse — slender \ olume though it is — forms a rich and nnique contribution to the poetry of the English language.

The present edition brings together all Poe's stories and poems in a single volutne designed for easy readability and as a permanent part of the American home library.
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Table of contents: label: 1
title: Tales of Mystery and Horror; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
pagenum: 2; title: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
pagenum: 27; title: The Black Cat
pagenum: 63; title: The Gold-Bug
pagenum: 70; title: Ligeia
pagenum: 97; title: A Descent into the Maelström
pagenum: 108; title: The Tell-Tale Heart
pagenum: 121; title: The Purloined Letter
pagenum: 125; title: The Assignation
pagenum: 139; title: MS. Found in a Bottle
pagenum: 148; title: William Wilson
pagenum: 156; title: Berenice
pagenum: 171; title: The Fall of the House of Usher
pagenum: 177; title: The Cask of Amontillado
pagenum: 191; title: The Pit and the Pendulum
pagenum: 196; title: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
pagenum: 207; title: The Man of the Crowd
pagenum: 215; title: Morella
pagenum: 222; title: "Thou Art the Man"
pagenum: 226; title: The Oblong Box
pagenum: 237; title: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
pagenum: 245; title: Metzengerstein
pagenum: 250; title: The Masque of the Red Death
pagenum: 256; title: The Premature Burial
pagenum: 261; title: The Imp of the Perverse
pagenum: 271; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
pagenum: 276; title: Hop-Frog
pagenum: 283; label: 2
title: Humor and Satire; title: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
pagenum: 292; title: The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
pagenum: 305; title: How to Write a Blackwood Article
pagenum: 320; title: A Predicament
pagenum: 328; title: Mystification
pagenum: 335; title: Loss of Breath
pagenum: 341; title: The Man That Was Used Up
pagenum: 350; title: Diddling
pagenum: 358; title: The Angel of the Odd
pagenum: 366; title: Mellonta Tauta
pagenum: 373; title: The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
pagenum: 383; title: X-ing a Paragrab
pagenum: 397; title: The Business Man
pagenum: 402; title: A Tale of Jerusalem
pagenum: 409; title: The Sphinx
pagenum: 412; title: Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
pagenum: 415; title: Bon-Bon
pagenum: 420; title: The Duc de L'Omelette
pagenum: 432; title: Three Sundays in a Week
pagenum: 435; title: The Devil in the Belfry
pagenum: 440; title: Lionizing
pagenum: 446; title: Some Words with a Mummy
pagenum: 450; title: The Spectacles
pagenum: 462; title: Four Beasts in One
pagenum: 480; title: Never Bet the Devil Your Head
pagenum: 486; label: 3
title: Flights and Fantasies; title: The Balloon-Hoax
pagenum: 496; title: Mesmeric Revelation
pagenum: 505; title: Eleonora
pagenum: 513; title: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
pagenum: 517; title: King Pest
pagenum: 555; title: The Island of the Fay
pagenum: 564; title: The Oval Portrait
pagenum: 568; title: The Domain of Arnheim
pagenum: 571; title: Landor's Cottage
pagenum: 582; title: The Power of Words
pagenum: 591; title: The Colloquy of Monos and Una
pagenum: 594; title: Shadow — A Parable
pagenum: 601; title: Silence — A Fable
pagenum: 603; title: Von Kempelen and His Discovery
pagenum: 605; label: 4
title: The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket
pagenum: 611; label: 5
title: The Poems; title: Annabel Lee
pagenum: 738; title: To My Mother
pagenum: 739; title: Hymn
pagenum: 739; title: A Valentine
pagenum: 740; title: Fairy-Land
pagenum: 740; title: To Helen
pagenum: 742; title: Israfel
pagenum: 742; title: The City in the Sea
pagenum: 744; title: The Sleeper
pagenum: 745; title: Lenore
pagenum: 746; title: The Valley of Unrest
pagenum: 747; title: The Coliseum
pagenum: 748; title: Sonnet to Zante
pagenum: 749; title: Bridal Ballad to —
pagenum: 749; title: Sonnet-Silence
pagenum: 750; title: Dream-Land
pagenum: 751; title: Eulalie — A Song
pagenum: 752; title: To F-
pagenum: 753; title: To F-S S. O -- D
pagenum: 753; title: The Raven
pagenum: 754; title: To M. L. S --
pagenum: 756; title: Ulalume
pagenum: 757; title: To —
pagenum: 759; title: To Helen
pagenum: 760; title: An Enigma
pagenum: 761; title: For Annie
pagenum: 762; title: The Bells
pagenum: 764; title: Eldorado
pagenum: 767; title: A Dream within a Dream
pagenum: 768; title: Stanzas
pagenum: 768; title: A Dream
pagenum: 769; title: The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour
pagenum: 770; title: The Lake: To —
pagenum: 771; title: Sonnet-to Science
pagenum: 771; title: Al Aaraaf
pagenum: 772; title: Romance
pagenum: 781; title: To —
pagenum: 782; title: To the River —
pagenum: 782; title: To —
pagenum: 783; title: Tamerlane
pagenum: 783; title: To -- --
pagenum: 789; title: Dreams
pagenum: 789; title: Spirits of the Dead
pagenum: 790; title: Evening Star
pagenum: 791; title: Elizabeth
pagenum: 792; title: Serenade
pagenum: 792; title: Imitation
pagenum: 793; title: Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius
pagenum: 794; title: Scenes from "Politian"
pagenum: 795; title: A Pæan
pagenum: 809; title: To Isadore
pagenum: 810; title: Alone
pagenum: 812; title: To One in Paradise
pagenum: 812; title: The Haunted Palace
pagenum: 813; title: The Conqueror Worm
pagenum: 814; title: Edgar Allan Poe — A Biographical Note
pagenum: 816