[Oxford World’s Classics] Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (ISBN: 9780199535774)

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Paperback

Published: 17 April 2008

368 Pages

196x129mm

ISBN: 9780199535774

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe’s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.

Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe’s tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious’ in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and 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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Table of Content

MS Found in a Bottle

Berenicë

Morella

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

Eleonora

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Gold-Bug

The Black Cat

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

The Purloined Letter

The Systems of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

The Imp of the Perverse

The Cask of Amontillado

The Domain of Arnheim

Hop-Frog

Von Kempelen and his Discovery