The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 5

Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Devill Your Head Thou Art the Man Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling Bon-Bon Some words with a Mummy The Poetic Principle Old English Poetry POEMS: Dedication Preface Poems of Later Life The Raven The Bells Ulalume To Helen Annabel Lee A Valentine An Enigma To my Mother For Annie To F---- To Frances S. Osgood Eldorado Eulalie A Dream within a Dream To Marie Louise (Shew) To the Same The City in the Sea The Sleeper Bridal Ballad Notes Poems of Manhood Lenore To One in Paradise The Coliseum The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm Silence Dreamland Hymn To Zante Scenes from "Politian" Note Poems of Youth Introduction (1831) Sonnet--To Science Al Aaraaf Tamerlane To Helen The Valley of Unrest Israfel To -- ("The Bowers Whereat, in Dreams I See") To -- ("I Heed not That my Earthly Lot") To the River -- Song A Dream Romance Fairyland The Lake To-- "The Happiest Day" Imitation Hymn. Translation from the Greek "In Youth I Have Known One" A Paean Notes Doubtful Poems Alone To Isadore The Village Street The Forest Reverie Notes

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe-CONTENTS: -Philosophy of Furniture-A Tale of Jerusalem-The Sphinx-Hop Frog-The Man of the Crowd-Never Bet the Devill Your Head-Thou Art the Man-Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling-Bon-Bon-Some words with a Mummy-The Poetic Principle-Old English Poetry-POEMS: -Dedication-Preface-Poems of Later Life-The Raven-The Bells-Ulalume-To Helen-Annabel Lee-To Valentine-An Enigma-To my Mother-For Annie-To F ---- To Frances S. Osgood-The Golden-Eulalie-A Dream within a Dream-To Marie Louise (Shew) -To the Same-The City in the Sea-The Sleeper-Bridal Ballad-

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... THE GOLD-BUG [Prize Story of the Philadelphia Dollar Newapaver, June 21-28, 1843.] What ho! what ho! this fellow Is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. --All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with 3 Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters, he left New Orleans, the city of his forefathers, and took up his residence at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. This island is a very singular one. It cor> sists of little else than the sea sand, and is about three miles long. Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile. It is separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime, a favorite resort of the marsh-hen. The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. No trees of any magnitude are to be seen. Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where are some miser 5 able frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the sea-coast, is covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle so much prized by the horticulturists of England. The shrub here often attains the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and forms an almost impenetrable coppice, burthening the air with its fragrance. In the inmost recesses of this coppice, not tar from the eastern or more remote end of the island, Legrand had built himself a small hut, which he occupied when I first, ..