Record details

• ISBN: 1435106342
• ISBN: 9781435106345
• Physical Description: xv, 1023 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : Barnes & Noble, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Illustrations on end papers.

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fiction. Metzengerstein -- Duc De L'Omelette -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Loss of breath -- Bon-bon -- Four beasts in one: the Homo-Cameleopard -- MS. Found in a bottle -- Assignation -- Unparalleled adventures of one Hans Pfaal -- Lionizing -- Shadow: a parable -- silence: a fable -- Berenice -- Morella -- King Pest -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a blackwood article -- Devil in the belfry -- Man that was used up -- Fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- Conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Some account of Stonehenge, the Giant's Dance -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Instinct vs. reason: a black cat -- Business man -- Philosophy of furniture -- Man of the crowd -- Island of the Fay -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into the maelstrom -- Colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the Devil your head -- Eleonora -- Three Sundays in a week -- Oval portrait -- Maque of the Red Death -- Pit and the pendulum -- Mystery of Marie Roget -- Morning on the Wissahiccon -- Tell-tale heart -- Gold bug -- Black cat -- Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- Byron and Miss Chaworth -- Spectacles -- Oblong box -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains -- Premature burial -- Purloined letter -- System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Mesmeric revelation -- "Thou Art the Man" -- Balloon-hoax -- Angel of the odd -- Literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- Thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Some words with a mummy -- Power of words -- Imp of the perverse -- Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- Sphinx -- Cask of Amontillado -- Domain of Arnheim -- Mellonta Tauta -- Landor's cottage -- Hop-frog -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- "X-ing a paragrab" -- Eureka: a prose poem -- Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

Poetry. O, Tempora! O, Mores! -- To Margaret -- "To Octavia" -- Tamerlane -- Song -- Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- Imitation -- Stanzas -- A Dream -- "The happiest day, the happiest hour" -- Lake: To__ -- Sonnet: to science -- Al Aaraaf -- "Mysterious star!" -- Romance -- To __ ("The bowers whereat") -- To the river __ -- To __ ("I heed not") -- Fairy land -- Fairy-land -- Alone -- "To Isaac Lea" -- Elizabeth -- From an album -- "Lines on Joe Locke" -- To Helen -- Israfel -- Sleeper -- Valley of unrest -- City in the sea -- Lenore -- To one in paradise -- Hymn -- Enigma -- Serenade -- Coliseum -- To F__s S. O__d -- To F__ -- Bridal ballad -- Sonnet: to Zante -- Haunted palace -- Sonnet: Silence -- Conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- Eulalie: a song -- Raven -- A valentine -- "Deep in Earth" -- To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter -- To M.L. S__ -- To __ __ __ -- Ulalume: a ballad -- An enigma -- Bells -- To Helen -- A dream within a dream -- For Annie -- Eldorado -- Sonnet: to my mother -- Annabel Lee -- Scenes from "Politian."

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