Complete Short Stories (66 Short Stories - Formatted) (Unique Classics)

Complete Short Stories (66 Short Stories - Formatted) (Unique Classics)

Complete Short Stories (66 Short Stories - Formatted) (Unique Classics)

Complete Short Stories (66 Short Stories - Formatted) (Unique Classics)


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Overview

In 1846 Edgar Allan Poe argued in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition" that a literary work should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. He has set the standard of excellence to this concept with his legacy of 66 short stories that are presented here. His stories include the genres of horror, satire, humor, fantasy and even science fiction. This Nook edition contains the complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories from 1832 to 1849. They are as follows:

Metzengerstein (1832)
The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
Loss of Breath (1832)
Bon-Bon (1832)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Assignation (1834)
Berenice (1835)
Morella (1835)
Lionizing (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Shadow - A Parable (1835)
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
Mystification (1837)
Silence - A Fable (1838)
Ligeia (1838)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
A Predicament (1838)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
The Business Man (1840)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
A Descent into the Maelström (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Black Cat (1843)
Diddling (1843)
The Spectacles (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Angel of the Odd (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
The Sphinx (1846)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Hop-Frog (1849)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
Landor's Cottage (1849)

All of Unique Classics ebooks have an improved navigation system which includes a linked table of contents and links back to table of contents at the end of each short story. The works are formatted for easy reading and triple-checked for quality assurance. Our illustrated ebooks contain the best related works of art for the material which make the story reading experience much more pleasant and memorable.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014240505
Publisher: Unique Classics
Publication date: 03/23/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 891 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature.
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