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Edgar Allan Poe · Raven Edition

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2

Read twenty-two tales that test the boundaries of reason, perception, fear, and self-command, followed by the edition’s notes.

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Contents

  1. The Purloined Letter
  2. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
  3. A Descent into the Maelstrom
  4. Von Kempelen and His Discovery
  5. Mesmeric Revelation
  6. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  7. The Black Cat
  8. The Fall of the House of Usher
  9. Silence--A Fable
  10. The Masque of the Red Death
  11. The Cask of Amontillado
  12. The Imp of the Perverse
  13. The Island of the Fay
  14. The Assignation
  15. The Pit and the Pendulum
  16. The Premature Burial
  17. The Domain of Arnheim
  18. Landor's Cottage
  19. William Wilson
  20. The Tell-Tale Heart
  21. Berenice
  22. Eleonora
  23. Notes to the Second Volume

About this text

Edgar Allan Poe · Raven Edition. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 2148. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

This is Volume 2 of the Raven Edition, with twenty-two tales and its collected notes; it is not a collection of all Poe’s writings.

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