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Edgar Allan Poe Reader / Edgar Allan Poe.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1993
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature, American.
- Horror tales.
- American poetry--19th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- novels.
- Novels
- Fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 318, [2] pages ; 22 cm.
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Courage Books, [1993]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A dream
- Song: To
- The lake
- Tamerlane
- To the river
- Al Aaraaf
- Israfel
- The valley Nis [The valley of unrest]
- The doomed city [The city in the sea]
- Shadow, a fable
- Ligeia
- The conqueror worm
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The haunted palace
- William Wilson, a tale
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Mask of the Red Death
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- Lenore
- The Gold-Bug
- The Black Cat
- Eulalie, a song
- The Purloined Letter
- The raven
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Cask of Amontillado
- Eldorado
- To my mother
- Annabel Lee
- The bells
- Essays / by George Bernard Shaw / by William Carlos Williams.
- Notes:
- "Complete and Unabridged"--Dust jacket.
- "The text of this volume is excerpted from the 'Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe,' copyright © 1983 by Running Press."--Title page verso.
- "The essay 'Edgar Allan Poe' by George Bernard Shaw was first published in The Nation, London (Dec. 18, 1926)."--Title page verso.
- "The essay 'Edgar Allan Poe' by William Carlos Williams was first published in In the American Grain by William Carlos William. Copyright © 1933 by William Carlos Williams."--Title page verso.
- "Editor: Ashley Stoudt. Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe provided by The Granger Collection, New York. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Interior design by Elizabeth Schwartz. Typography: ITC Berkeley Oldstyle, by Deborah Lugar."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Works. Selections. 1993. Edgar Allan Poe reader.
- ISBN:
- 1561382779
- 9781561382774
- OCLC:
- 28155136
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