"A Modern library giant"--Jacket.

(Cont'd) Maelzel's chess-player -- The power of words -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Shadow : a parable -- Silence : a fable -- Philosophy of furniture -- A tale of Jerusalem -- The sphinx -- The man of the crowd -- Never bet the devil your head -- "Thou art the man" -- Hop-frog -- Four beasts in one ; The homo-camelopard -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Bon-bon -- Some words with a mummy -- Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraea" -- Magazine writing.. Peter Snook -- The quacks of Helicon : a satire -- Astoria -- The domain of Arnheim, or The landscape garden -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- Berenice -- Eleonora -- Ligeia -- Morella -- Metzengerstein -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains -- The spectacles -- The Duc de l'Omelette -- The oblong box -- King Pest -- Three Sundays in a week -- The devil in the belfry -- Lionizing -- Narrative of A. Gordon Pym -- Poems -- Poems written in youth.

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays.