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An edition of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe [32 stories, 42 poems, 11 essays] (1931)
By Edgar Allan Poe
Publish Date
1951
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
eng
Pages
428
Description:
32 stories: Metzengerstein The Duc L'Omelette MS. Fmrnd in a Bottle [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) Morella Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Ligeia [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion The Man of the Crowd The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W) A Descent into the Maelström Three Sundays in a Week [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W) The Oval Portrait [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) The Gold-Bug [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) The Elk [Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W) [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Hop-Frog [Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W) The Light-House 42 poems: Tamerlane To ("I Saw on thy Bridal Day") A Dream Within a Dream A Dream The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour The Lake: To Alone Sonnet—To Science Songs from A1 Aaraaf ("The Bowers To To the River Romance To — ("I heed Fairyland To Helen Lenore Israfei The City in the Sea The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest (first version) The Valley of Unrest (final version) The Coliseum To One in Paradise (in The Assignation, p. 80) Hymn Sonnet to Zante Bridal Ballad The Haunted Palace (in The Fall of the House of Usher, p. 122) Sonnet—Silence The Conqueror Worm (in Ligeia, p. 107) Dreamland [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) Eulalie—A Song To M.L.S—- Ulalume To Helen For Annie Eldorado To My [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) The Bells 11 essays: Watkins Tottle Hyperion Exordium Instinct vs Reason—A Black Cat R. W. Emerson Hazlitt, The Characters of Shakspeare Milton, Prme Works The Philosophy of Composition Hawthorne, Tales, etc. The Poetic Principle Marginalia (extracts)
subjects: Laments, Narrative poetry, Poetry, Grief, American poetry, American Children's poetry, Love poetry, Juvenile poetry, busts, supernatural, talking birds, ravens, American fantasy poetry, Young adult nonfiction, Fantasy poetry, Gothic poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Children's poetry, Death, short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, silence, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American Fantasy literature
People: Annabel Lee, Lenore, Pallas, William Wilson, Von Kempelen, Lieutenant Maury, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Marmontel, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Places: kingdom by the sea, Paris, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford