Author:
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Imprint:Garden City, NY : Doubleday, [1966]
Descriptionix, 819 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:I.TALES OF MYSTERY AND HORROR: The murders in the Rue Morgue. - The mystery of Marie Rogêt. - The black cat. - The gold-bug. - Ligeia. - A descent into the maelström. - The tell-tale heart. - The purloined letter. - The assignation. - MS. found in a bottle. - William Wilson. - Berenice. - The fall of the House of Usher. - The cask of Amontillado. - The pit and the pendulum. - A tale of the ragged mountains. - The man of the crowd. - Morella. - 'Thou art the man' - The oblong box. - The conversation of Eiros and Charmion. - Metzengerstein. - The masque of the red death. - The premature burial. - The imp of the perverse. - The facts in the case of M. Valdemar. - Hop-frog. -- 2.HUMOR AND SATIRE: The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. - The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. - How to write a Blackwood article. - A predicament. - Mystification. - Loss of breath. - The man that was used up. - Diddling. - The angel of the odd. - Mellonta tauta. - The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade. - X-ing a paragrab. - The business man. - A tale of Jerusalem. - The sphinx. - Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling. - Bon-bon. - The Duc de l'omelette. - Three Sundays in a week. - The devil in the belfry. - Lionizing. - Some words with a mummy. - The spectacles. - Four beasts in one. - Never bet the devil your head. -- 3.FLIGHTS AND FANCIES: The balloon-hoax. - Mesmeric revelation. - Eleonora. - The unparalled adventure of one Hans Pfaall. - King pest. - The island of the fay. - The oval portrait. - The domain of Arnheim. - Landor's cottage. - The power of words. - The colloquy of Monos and Una. - Shadow: a parable. - Silence: a fable. - Von Kempelen and his discovery. -- 4.THE NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET. - 5.THE POEMS.
