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    The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

    Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews

    Part of Penguin Clothbound Classics

    Author Edgar Allan Poe
    Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
    Introduction by David Galloway
    Edited by David Galloway
    Notes by David Galloway
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    A classic gothic tale of the dissolution of a family and their estate told by a master of the macabre, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

    This selection of Poe's stories, poetry and other writing demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In 'The Tell-Tale Heart', a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. This edition also includes an introduction by the novelist, curator and academic David Galloway.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.
    The Fall of the House of Usher and Other WritingsChronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Text

    Poems
    Stanzas
    Sonnet - To Science
    Al Aaraaf
    Romance
    To Helen
    Israfel
    The City and the Sea
    The Sleeper
    Lenore
    The Valley of Unrest
    The Raven
    Ulalume
    For Annie
    A Valentine
    Annabel Lee
    The Bells

    Tales
    MS. Found in a Bottle
    Ligeia
    The Man that was Used Up
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    William Wilson
    The Man of the Crowd
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    A Decent into the Maelström
    Eleonora
    The Oval Portrait
    The Masque of the Red Death
    The Pit and the Pendulum
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    The Gold Bug
    The Black Cat
    The Purloined Letter
    The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    The Cask of Amontillado
    Hop-Frog

    Essays and Reviews
    Letter to B--
    Georgia Scenes
    The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts)
    Watkins Tottle
    The Philosophy of Furniture
    Wyandotté
    Music
    Time and Space
    Twice-Told Tales
    The American Drama (excerpts)
    Hazlitt
    The Philosophy of Composition
    Song-Writing
    On Imagination
    The Veil of the Soul
    The Poetic Principle (excerpts)

    Notes

    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

    J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. His books on Poe include Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987), “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and the Abyss of Interpretation (1995), and several edited volumes including A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001), Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001; with Liliane Weissberg), and Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012; with Jerome McGann). His major contribution to American literary studies is Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016), written with the support of fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also published Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (1993), and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of The Life of Black Hawk (2008). He has appeared in many Poe documentary films, including The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe(1994) for the A&E Biography series and Eric Stange’s film for the PBS American Masterpiece series, Edgar A. Poe: Buried Alive (2017). View titles by Edgar Allan Poe

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    A classic gothic tale of the dissolution of a family and their estate told by a master of the macabre, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

    This selection of Poe's stories, poetry and other writing demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In 'The Tell-Tale Heart', a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. This edition also includes an introduction by the novelist, curator and academic David Galloway.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.

    Table of Contents

    The Fall of the House of Usher and Other WritingsChronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Text

    Poems
    Stanzas
    Sonnet - To Science
    Al Aaraaf
    Romance
    To Helen
    Israfel
    The City and the Sea
    The Sleeper
    Lenore
    The Valley of Unrest
    The Raven
    Ulalume
    For Annie
    A Valentine
    Annabel Lee
    The Bells

    Tales
    MS. Found in a Bottle
    Ligeia
    The Man that was Used Up
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    William Wilson
    The Man of the Crowd
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    A Decent into the Maelström
    Eleonora
    The Oval Portrait
    The Masque of the Red Death
    The Pit and the Pendulum
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    The Gold Bug
    The Black Cat
    The Purloined Letter
    The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    The Cask of Amontillado
    Hop-Frog

    Essays and Reviews
    Letter to B--
    Georgia Scenes
    The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts)
    Watkins Tottle
    The Philosophy of Furniture
    Wyandotté
    Music
    Time and Space
    Twice-Told Tales
    The American Drama (excerpts)
    Hazlitt
    The Philosophy of Composition
    Song-Writing
    On Imagination
    The Veil of the Soul
    The Poetic Principle (excerpts)

    Notes

    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

    J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. His books on Poe include Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987), “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and the Abyss of Interpretation (1995), and several edited volumes including A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001), Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001; with Liliane Weissberg), and Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012; with Jerome McGann). His major contribution to American literary studies is Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016), written with the support of fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also published Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (1993), and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of The Life of Black Hawk (2008). He has appeared in many Poe documentary films, including The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe(1994) for the A&E Biography series and Eric Stange’s film for the PBS American Masterpiece series, Edgar A. Poe: Buried Alive (2017). View titles by Edgar Allan Poe

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