The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2Poe, Edgar Allan
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
This volume of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction brings together unsettling narrators, Gothic settings, and tales of suspense, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat.”
Stories in this collection
- The Black Cat
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Masque of the Red Death
From the English edition
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, _au troisième_, No. 33, _Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain_. For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence; while each, to any casual observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with the curling eddies of smoke that…
Edition and source
This is Volume 2 of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. It contains the full text of that volume.
Project Gutenberg eBook 2148 · English
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