The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1

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1495262The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe — Volume I1850Edgar Allan Poe

TALES.



THE WORKS


OF THE LATE


EDGAR ALLAN POE:


WITH


NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS.


BY


N. P. WILLIS, J. R. LOWELL, AND R. W. GRISWOLD.


IN TWO VOLUMES




VOL. 1

TALES




NEW YORK:

J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL,

1850.




Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
J. S. REDFIELD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York.




Contents of Vol. I.
Page.
To the Reader, iii
Contents, v
Edgar A. Poe, vii
Death of Edgar A. Poe, xiv
The Adventures of one Hans Pfaall, 1
The Gold-Bug, 52
The Balloon Hoax, 88
Von Kempelen and His Discovery, 102
Mesmeric Revelation, 110
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, 121
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, 131
MS. found in a Bottle, 150
Descent into the Maelstrom, 161
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 178
The Mystery of Marie Roget, 213
The Purloined Letter, 262
The Black Cat, 281
The Fall of the House of Usher, 291
The Pit and the Pendulum, 310
The Premature Burial, 325
The Masque of the Red Death, 339
The Cask of Amontillado, 346
The Imp of the Perverse, 353
The Island of the Fay, 360
The Oval Portrait, 366
The Assignation, 370
The Tell-Tale Heart, 382
The Domain of Arnheim, 388
Landor's Cottage, 404
William Wilson, 417
Berenice, 437
Eleanora, 446
Ligeia, 453
Morella, 469
Metzengerstein, 475

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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