Research Catalog

Title

The portable Edgar Allan Poe / edited with an introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy.

Author

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Kennedy, J. Gerald

Description

xxxviii, 628 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. 2006
• Penguin classics

Alternative Title

Works. 2006

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Short stories, American > 19th century
• Detective and mystery stories, American > 19th century
• Horror tales, American > 19th century

Genre/Form

Short stories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-628).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy -- Chronology -- Note on texts -- Tales: Predicaments. MS. found in a bottle ; A descent into the maelström ; The masque of the red death ; The pit and the pendulum ; The premature burial ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Bereavements. The assignation ; Berenice ; Morella ; Ligeia ; The fall of the House of Usher ; Eleonora ; The oval portrait -- Antagonisms. Metzengerstein ; William Wilson ; The tell-tale heart ; The black cat ; The imp of the perverse ; The cask of Amontillado ; Hop-frog -- Mysteries. The man of the crowd ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The gold-bug ; The oblong box ; A tale of the ragged mountains ; The purloined letter -- Grotesqueries. The man that was used up ; The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ; Some words with a mummy -- Poems -- Letters -- Critical principles -- Observations -- Notes -- Selected bibliographies.

ISBN

• 0143039911
• 9780143039914

LCCN

^^2006043297

OCLC

• 65425954
• SCSB-12104409

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library