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Author / Creator: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. |
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Uniform title: | Tales. Selections |
Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 338 pages). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11112464 |
Summary: | Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular--"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter"--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 338 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxv). |
ISBN: | 9780191583117 0191583111 0585359938 9780585359939 |