The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

✍ Scribed by Poe, Edgar Allan; Gerald, Kennedy J (editor)

• Book ID: 108631739
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 447 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780143039914

✦ Synopsis

A fully revised collection of Poe's work

The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.

About the Author

J. Gerald Kennedy is William A. Read Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

Contents

TALES

**Predicaments

MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE

A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE PREMATURE BURIAL

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR

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**Bereavements

THE ASSIGNATION

BERENICE

MORELLA

LIGEIA

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

ELEONORA

THE OVAL PORTRAIT

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**Antagonisms

METZENGERSTEIN

WILLIAM WILSON

THE TELL-TALE HEART

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THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

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THE BLACK CAT

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

HOP-FROG

Mysteries

THE MAN OF THE CROWD

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

THE GOLD-BUG

THE OBLONG BOX

A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS

THE PURLOINED LETTER

Grotesqueries

THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP1

THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER

SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY1

POEMS

THE LAKE—TO—1

SONNET—TO SCIENCE

FAIRY-LAND

INTRODUCTIONI

“ALONE”1

TO HELEN1

THE SLEEPER

ISRAFELc

THE VALLEY OF UNREST

THE CITY IN THE SEA1

LENORE

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DREAM-LAND

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SONNET—SILENCE

THE RAVEN

ULALUME—A BALLADI

THE BELLS

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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

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FOR ANNIE1

ELDORADO1

TO MY MOTHER

ANNABEL LEE

LETTERS

CRITICAL PRINCIPLES

ON UNITY OF EFFECT

ON PLOT IN NARRATIVE

ON THE PROSE TALE

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THE OBJECT OF POETRY

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ON THE DESIGN OF FICTION

“THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION”

THE EFFECT OF RHYME

“THE POETIC PRINCIPLE”

AMERICAN CRITICISM

OBSERVATIONS

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