Great short works of Edgar Allan Poe : poems, tales, criticism /: poems, tales, criticism. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited with an introduction by G.R. Thompson.
• Other Names: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
• Contents: Poems: Dreams; Spirits of the dead; Evening star; Dream within a dream; Stanzas, "In youth have I known"; Dream; "Happiest day -- the happiest hour"; Lake -- to -; Sonnet -- 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 -- silence; Conqueror worm; Dream-land; Raven; Ulalume -- a ballad; Bells; Eldorado; For Annie; Annabel Lee -- 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 -- a parable; Silence -- 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 -- Criticism: Review of "Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne"; Philosophy of composition; Excerpts from The poetic principle -- Chronology.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins e-books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (576 pages)
• Subjects: 818.309; American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, American; Fantasy poetry, American; Horror tales, American; Paranormal fiction; American fiction; Detective and mystery stories, American; Fantasy poetry, American; Horror tales, American; Paranormal fiction; Short stories, American
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061760723; 0061760722
• Related ISBNs: 9780060727857
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