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Edgar Allan Poe

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Born 1809 in Boston · Died 1849 in Baltimore

writer, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, author, journalist · United States · associated with Romanticism

Notable works: The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Oval Portrait, The Tell-Tale Heart

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Morgue kadun kauhu
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.
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Eureka: A Prose Poem
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Selections from Poe
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Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Primera Serie
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The Bells, and Other Poems
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First Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan Poe
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Le Corbeau = The Raven
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Stories of Intellect
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The Conchologist's First Book A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science.
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Poemas
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Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires
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Histoires grotesques et sérieuses
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Ligeia und andere Novellen; Sieben Gedichte
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Eureka
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Le scarabée d'or
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La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio
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Ses noveloj el "Rakontoj de mistero kaj imago"
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Derniers Contes
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Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες
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Valtameren salaisuus
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La Murdoj de Kadavrejo-Strato
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Kultakuoriainen y.m. kertomuksia
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La Falo de Uŝero-Domo
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Short stories and shorter works by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes
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The Cask of Amontillado

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1063 (public domain in the USA).

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.

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The Raven

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1065 (public domain in the USA).

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”

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The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Including Essays on Poetry

From Project Gutenberg e-text #10031 (public domain in the USA).

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--nevermore!

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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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