The Portable Edgar Allan PoeThe Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contents
MS Found in a Bottle 1832 II | 9 |
A Descent into the Maelström 1841 | 21 |
The Masque of the Red Death 1842 | 37 |
The Pit and the Pendulum 1842 | 43 |
The Premature Burial 1844 | 57 |
The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar 1845 | 71 |
The Assignation 1834 | 85 |
Berenice 1835 | 97 |
Some Words with a Mummy 1845 | 379 |
The LakeTo 1827 | 401 |
Alone 1875 | 408 |
The Valley of Unrest 1831 | 414 |
DreamLand 1844 | 420 |
UlalumeA Ballad 1847 | 426 |
A Dream within a Dream 1849 | 434 |
Eldorado 1849 | 439 |
Morella 1835 | 105 |
Ligeia 1838 III | 111 |
The Fall of the House of Usher 1839 | 126 |
Eleonora 1841 | 145 |
The Oval Portrait 1842 | 151 |
Metzengerstein 1832 | 159 |
William Wilson 1839 | 168 |
The TellTale Heart 1843 | 187 |
The Black Cat 1843 | 192 |
The Imp of the Perverse 1845 | 202 |
The Cask of Amontillado 1846 | 208 |
HopFrog 1849 | 215 |
The Man of the Crowd 1840 | 229 |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841 | 238 |
The GoldBug 1843 | 271 |
The Oblong Box 1844 | 306 |
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 1844 | 317 |
The Purloined Letter 1844 | 327 |
The Man That Was Used Up 1839 | 347 |
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether 1845 | 359 |
To John Allan March 19 1827 | 447 |
To John Allan January 3 1831 | 453 |
To Maria and Virginia Clemm August 29 1835 | 461 |
To Joseph Evans Snodgrass April 1 1841 | 469 |
To Frederick W Thomas February 3 1842 | 475 |
To James Russell Lowell March 30 1844 | 483 |
To James Russell Lowell July 2 1844 | 489 |
To Philip P Cooke August 9 1846 | 495 |
To George W Eveleth January 4 1848 | 501 |
To Sarah Helen Whitman October 1 1848 | 507 |
To Annie L Richmond November 16 1848 | 513 |
To Maria Clemm July 7 1849 | 519 |
Literary Nationalism | 577 |
The Soul and the Self | 585 |
Adaptation and the Plots of God | 591 |
Magazine Literature in America | 599 |
Matter Spirit and Divine Will | 605 |
Notes | 611 |
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