The complete stories

Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849 (Author).

Summary: Poe's genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things is revealed through his short stories.

Record details

ISBN: 9781857150995 (UK)
ISBN: 1857150996 (UK)
ISBN: 9780679417408
ISBN: 0679417400
Physical Description: xxxv, 955 pages ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).

Formatted Contents Note:

A tale of Jerusalem -- Bon-bon -- The Duc De L'Omelette -- Loss of breath -- Metzengerstein -- MS. found in a bottle -- Silence ; a fable -- Four beasts in one-- the homo-camelopard -- The assignation -- The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- Shadow-- a paradise -- Berenice -- Morella -- King Pest -- Lionizing -- Mystification -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- How to write a Blackwood article -- A predicament -- Ligeia -- The fall of the House of Usher -- The man that was used up -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- William Wilson -- The devil in the belfry -- The business man -- Philosophy of furniture -- The man of the crowd -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- A descent into the maelström -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The island of the Fay -- The colloquy of Monus and Una -- Never bet the devil your head -- Eleonora -- Three Sundays in a week -- The mystery of Marie Rogêt -- The pit and the pendulum -- The masque of the red death -- The oval portrait -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- The tell-tale heart -- Diddling -- The balloon-hoax -- The purloined letter -- Mesmeric revelation -- The premature burial -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- The angel of the odd -- Thou art the man -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The spectacles -- The oblong box -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- The imp of the perverse -- The power of words -- Some words with a mummy -- The cask of Amontillado -- The sphinx -- The domain of Arnheim or the landscape garden -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Mellonta tauta -- Hop-frog -- Landor's Cottage -- X-ing a paragraph.