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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2006.Description: xxxviii, 628 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0143039911 (pbk.)
  • 9780143039914
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. 2006
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818
LOC classification:
  • PS 2602 P743p 2006
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.
Summary: he 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-628).

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.

he 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.

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