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The Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1878
An 1878 edition collecting Poe's short prose tales, including many of his best-known stories.
This collection preserves Poe's own short stories, essential for studying his prose fiction.
About this source
What it is
This book is a nineteenth-century edition of Edgar Allan Poe's prose tales, published in 1878 by W. J. Widdleton in New York. It contains numerous stories, including satirical and adventure tales, arranged across its contents.
Why it matters
This collection preserves a wide range of Poe's short fiction and shows how his stories continued to be published and read decades after his death in 1849. It offers students direct access to his storytelling, humor and imagination across many genres.
Look closer
- Why might a publisher gather so many different tales into one volume?
- What variety of subjects and tones do you notice just from the list of titles?
- How does reading an original nineteenth-century edition differ from reading a modern printed copy?
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