Title:
The fall of the house of Usher : and other tales / Edgar Allan Poe ; with an introduction by Stephen Marlowe and a new afterword by Regina Marler.
ISBN:
9780451530318
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : New American Library, [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
xvi, 395 pages ; 18 cm.
General Note:
"Signet classics."
Contents:
Introduction -- The balloon-hoax -- Ms. found in a bottle -- A descent into the maelström -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The purloined letter -- The black cat -- The fall of the house of Usher -- The pit and the pendulum -- The masque of the Red Death -- The cask of Amontillado -- The assignation -- The tell-tale heart -- Diddling -- The man that was used up -- Narrative of A. Gordon Pym -- Afterword -- Selected bibliography.
Summary:
A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre includes "The Pit and the Pendulum, " "The Tell-Tale Heart, " and "The Fall of the House of Usher, " in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocm73839316
Availability:
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