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An edition of Edgar Allan Poe (1945)

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"Charlatan, plagiarist, pathological liar, whimpering child, egomaniac, braggart, and irresponsible drunkard, he did what few American writers had ever tried to do before: he tapped the rich reservoir of the subconscious mind to set free the terrible images which had seldom been allowed to stalk the printed page." Thus in his introduction to this collection Philip Van Doren Stern sums up the strange genius of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's most original men of letters.

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fan- tasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this vol-ume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
666

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American Fantasy literature, Littérature fantastique américaine, Fiction, short stories (single author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author), Fiction, general

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November 20, 1959, Viking Adult, Viking Press
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
LETTERS
To John Allan. March 19, 1827
To John Allan. March 20, 1827
To John Allan. January 3, 1831
To John Allan. April 12, 1833
To William Poe. August 20, 1835
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. August 29, 1835
From a letter to Dr. J. E. Snodgrass. April 1, 1841
To Lea & Blanchard. August 13, 1841
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. April 7, 1844
To James Russell Lowell. July 2, 1844
From a letter to E. A. Duyckinck. November 13, 1845
To Virginia Poe. June 12, 1846
To N. P. Willis. December 30, 1846
To Mrs. Mary Louise Shew. January 29, 1847
From a letter to George Eveleth. January 4, 1848
To George Eveleth. February 29, 1848
To Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman. October 1,1848
To Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman. October 18, 1848
To Mrs. Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond. November 16, 1848
From a letter to F. W. Thomas. February 14, 1849
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 7, 1849
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 14, 1849
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. July 19, 1849
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. August, 1849
To Mrs. Maria Clemm. September, 1849
TALES
OF FANTASY
Edito/s Preface
William Wilson
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Eleonora
The Oval Portrait
The Man of the Crowd
OF TERROR
Editor's Preface
Ms. Found in a Bottle
A Descent into the Maelström
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
OF DEATH
Edito/s Preface
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
Edito/s Preface
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
OF MYSTERY AND RATIOCINATION
Editor's Preface
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogét
The Purloined Letter
The Cold-Bug
ARTICLES
Editor's Preface
Maelzel's Chess-Player
From A Few Words on Secret Writing
CRITICISM
Editor's Preface
The Philosophy of Composition
The Short Story
From The Poetic Principle
On Poets and Poetry, A Letter to B
POEMS
Edito/s Preface
PROSE POEMS
Silence—a Fable (1838)
Shadow—a Parable (1835)
VERSE
A Dream Within a Dream (1827)
Stanzas (1827)
"The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour" (1827)
The Lake: To — (1827)
Romance ( 1829)
Fairy-Land (1829)
To Helen (1831)
Israfel (1831)
The City in the Sea (1831)
The Sleeper (1831)
Lenore (1831)
The valley of Unrest (1831)
The Coliseum (1833)
Sonnet—Silence (1840)
Dream-Land ( 1844)
The Raven (1845)
A Valentine (1846)
Ulaiume (1847)
To — [Mrs. Marie Louise Shewl (1848)
For Annie (1849)
To My Mother (1849)
Annabel Lee (1849)
The Bells (1849)
Alone
OPINIONS
Editor's Preface
The Poet's Vision
Genius and Madness
Poetry and Imagination
Fancy and Imagination
Conversation
The Impossibility of Writing a Truthful
Autobiography
Hero Worship
The Distribution of Vital Energy
Music and Poetry
Logic vs. Truth
On Intuition
Plot—A Definition
The Theatrical Profession
Between Wakefulness and Sleep
Man and Superman
The Self and the Universe
POE'S BOOKS WITH THEIR FIRST PUBLICATION DATES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Published in
New York
Series
Viking Portable Library
Other Titles
Portable Poe
Copyright Date
1973

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818.309
Library of Congress
PS2602.S68 1977, PS2602 .S68 1977

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxxviii, 666p.
Number of pages
666

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Open Library
OL33029885M
Internet Archive
edgarallanpoe00poee
ISBN 10
0140150129
ISBN 13
9780140150124
LCCN
76054888
OCLC/WorldCat
1057053370, 2614586
Goodreads
58810915

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