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Selected tales / edited with an introduction and notes by David Van Leer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191583117
  • 0191583111
  • 0585359938
  • 9780585359939
Uniform titles:
  • Tales. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selected tales.DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 21
LOC classification:
  • PS2612 .A3 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
MS. Found in a bottle -- Berenic�e -- Ligeia -- Man that was used up -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in Rue Morgue -- Eleonora -- The masque of the Red Death -- The pit and the pendulum -- The mystery of Marie Rog�et -- The tell-tale heart -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The purloined letter -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- The Imp of the perverse -- The cask of Amontillado -- The domain of Arnheim -- Von Kempelen and his discovery.
Summary: Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxv).

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.

MS. Found in a bottle -- Berenic�e -- Ligeia -- Man that was used up -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in Rue Morgue -- Eleonora -- The masque of the Red Death -- The pit and the pendulum -- The mystery of Marie Rog�et -- The tell-tale heart -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The purloined letter -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- The Imp of the perverse -- The cask of Amontillado -- The domain of Arnheim -- Von Kempelen and his discovery.

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