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  The portable Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.,  

  Publisher:

  Penguin Books,

  Pub date:

  2006.

  Description:

  xxxviii, 628 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780143039914

  Item info:

  3 copies currently available - Gayton Library, North Park Library, and Varina Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Gayton Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    818.309 POE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    North Park Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    818.309 POE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Varina Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    818.309 POE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction

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  The portable Edgar Allan Poe
  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.,
  

  Personal Author:

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.,

  Title:

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

  Publication Info:

  New York : Penguin Books, 2006.

  Physical descrip:

  xxxviii, 628 pages ; 20 cm.

  Series:

  (Penguin classics)

  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:

  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.

  Held by:

  GAYTON TWNHICKORY NORTH-PARK LIBBIEMILL VARINAAREA

  Subject term:

  Detective and mystery stories, American--19th century.

  Subject term:

  Horror tales, American--19th century.

  Subject term:

  Short stories, American--19th century.

  Added author:

  Kennedy, J. Gerald.