Edgar Allan Poe / selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Philip Van Doren Stern.

Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Imprint:New York : Penguin Books, 1977.

Descriptionxxxviii, 666 p. ; 19 cm.

Note:Reprint of the 1945 ed. published by Viking Press, New York under title: Edgar Allan Poe, issued in series: The Viking portable library.

Note:Cover title: The Portable Poe.

Note:LETTERS. - TALES: OF FANTASY: William Wilson. - A tale of the ragged mountains. - Eleonora. - The oval portrait. - The man of the crowd. -- OF TERROR: Ms. found in a bottle.- A descent into the maelström. - The pit and the pendulum. - The premature burial. -- OF DEATH: The assignation. - Berenice. - Morella. - Ligeia. - The fall of the House of Usher. - The facts in the case of M. Valdemar. - The masque of the red death. -- OF REVENGE AND MURDER: The tell-tale heart. - The black cat. - The cask of Amontillado. - Hop-frog. -- OF MYSTERY AND RATIOCINATION: The murders in the Rue Morgue. - The mystery of Marie Rogêt. - The purloined letter. - The gold-bug. -- ARTICLES: Maelzel's chess-player. - from A few words on secret writing. -- CRITICISM: The philosophy of composition. - The short story. - from The poetic principle. - On poets and poetry, a letter to B---. -- POEMS. - PROSE POEMS. - VERSE. - OPINIONS. - Poe's books with their first publication dates.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [665]-666.

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