Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism
ISBN: 9780060727857 | 0060727853
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 1/14/2010
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The classic poems and spinetingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume. Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and hightech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spinechilling thrill. Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of 40, Poe wrote across several fields during his life, noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The be... MORE
| Sources and Acknowledgments | p. v |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Poems | |
| Dreams (1827, 1828) | p. 49 |
| Spirits of the Dead (1827, 1839) | p. 50 |
| Evening Star (1827) | p. 51 |
| A Dream Within a Dream (1827-1849) | p. 52 |
| Stanzas: "In Youth Have I Known" (1827) | p. 52 |
| A Dream (1827) | p. 54 |
| "The Happiest Day-The Happiest Hour" (1827) | p... MORE |
| The Lake-To- (1827, 1845) | p. 55 |
| Sonnet-To Science (1829, 1845) | p. 56 |
| To-: "The Bowers Whereat, In Dreams I See" (1829, 1845) | p. 56 |
| Fairy-Land (1829, 1845) | p. 57 |
| Introduction (1829-1831) | p. 58 |
| Alone (1829) | p. 60 |
| To Helen (1831, 1845) | p. 61 |
| Israfel (1831-1845) | p. 62 |
| The City in the Sea (1831-1845) | p. 63 |
| The Sleeper (1831, 1849) | p. 65 |
| The Valley of Unrest (1831-1845) | p. 67 |
| Lenore (1831-1843) | p. 68 |
| To One in Paradise (1833-1849) | p. 148 |
| The Coliseum (1833, 1850) | p. 69 |
| The Haunted Palace (1838-1848) | p. 226 |
| Sonnet-Silence (1839-1845) | p. 71 |
| The Conqueror Worm (1842-1849) | p. 182 |
| Dream-Land (1844-1849) | p. 71 |
| The Raven (1845-1849) | p. 73 |
| Ulalume-A Ballad (1847-1849) | p. 78 |
| The Bells (1849) | p. 81 |
| Eldorado (1849) | p. 84 |
| For Annie (1849) | p. 85 |
| Annabel Lee (1849) | p. 88 |
| Tales | |
| Metzengerstein. A Tale in Imitation of the German (1832, 1836) | p. 93 |
| Loss of Breath. A Tale A La Blackwood (1832, 1835) | p. 104 |
| MS. Found in a Bottle (1833, 1845) | p. 125 |
| The Assignation [The Visionary] (1834, 1845) | p. 138 |
| Berenice (1835, 1845) | p. 152 |
| Some Passages from the Life of a Lion [Lionizing] (1832, 1845) | p. 162 |
| Shadow-A Parable (1835, 1845) | p. 168 |
| Silence-A Fable (1837, 1845) | p. 171 |
| Ligeia (1838, 1845) | p. 175 |
| How to Write a Blackwood Article. A Predicament (1838, 1845) | p. 193 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (1839, 1845) | p. 216 |
| William Wilson (1839, 1845) | p. 238 |
| The Man of the Crowd (1840, 1845) | p. 262 |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841, 1845) | p. 272 |
| A Descent Into the Maelstrom (1841, 1845) | p. 313 |
| The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841, 1845) | p. 333 |
| Never Bet the Devil Your Head. A Tale with a Moral (1841, 1845) | p. 344 |
| The Oval Portrait (1842, 1845) | p. 355 |
| The Masque of the Red Death (1842, 1845) | p. 359 |
| The Pit and the Pendulum (1842, 1845) | p. 366 |
| The Tell-Tale Heart (1843, 1845) | p. 384 |
| The Black Cat (1843, 1845) | p. 390 |
| A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844, 1845) | p. 401 |
| The Premature Burial (1844, 1845) | p. 413 |
| The Purloined Letter (1844, 1845) | p. 430 |
| Some Words with a Mummy (1845) | p. 452 |
| The Imp of the Perverse (1845, 1846) | p. 472 |
| The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) | p. 479 |
| The Sphinx (1846) | p. 490 |
| The Cask of Amontillado (1846) | p. 496 |
| Hop-Frog: or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1849) | p. 504 |
| Criticism | |
| Review of "Twice-Told Tales. By Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1842) | p. 519 |
| The Philosophy of Composition (1846) | p. 528 |
| Excerpts from The Poetic Principle (1848-1850) | p. 542 |
| Bibliography | p. 553 |
| Chronology | p. 559 |
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Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. Raised in Richmond, Virginia, he spent his life as a writer and editor in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, where he died in 1849
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