Bibliograph

The fall of the House of Usher and other writings, poems, tales, essays and reviews, edited with an introduction by David Galloway

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The fall of the House of Usher and other writings, poems, tales, essays and reviews, edited with an introduction by David Galloway

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The fall of the House of Usher and other writings

Oclc number

14916935

Responsibility statement

edited with an introduction by David Galloway

Sub title

poems, tales, essays and reviews

Summary

As unquestioned master of the "grotesque", early 19th century writer Edgar Allan Poe is fully represented in this classic collection originally published under the title Selected Writings. David Galloway's introduction reveals Poe not only as a complex personality and one of America's most exotic writers, but also as an individual who engaged in an astonishing variety of interests

Table Of Contents

Poems: Stanzas -- Sonnet-to science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To Helen -- Israfel -- City in the sea -- Sleeper -- Lenore -- Valley of unrest -- Raven -- Ulalume -- For Annie -- Valentine -- Annabel Lee -- Bells -- Eldorado -- Tales: Manuscript found in a bottle -- Ligeia -- Man that was used up -- Fall of the house of Usher -- William Wilson -- Man of the crowd -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Descent into the maelstrom -- Eleonora -- Oval portrait -- Masque of the red death -- Pit and the pendulum -- Tell-tale heart -- Gold-bug -- Black cat -- Purloined letter -- Facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar -- Cask of Amontillado -- Hop-fog -- Essays and reviews: Letter to B -- Georgia scenes -- Drake-Halleck review (excerpts) -- Watkins Tottle -- Philosophy of furniture -- Wyandotte -- Music -- Time and space -- Twice-told tales -- American drama (excerpts) -- Hazlitt -- Philosophy of composting -- Song-writing -- On imagination -- Veil of the soul -- Poetic principle (excerpts)

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