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Jan 11, 2021 · Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Balloon-Hoax, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ms. Found in a bottle,The cask of Amontillado, The assignation,The man that was used ...
Short Story: “The Fall of the House of Usher” Author: Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–49 First published: 1839 The original short story is in the public domain in the United States and in most, if not all, other countries as well. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’ copyright laws to be certain they can legally
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6 THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. Then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. Then a rushing revival of soul and a successful effort to move. And now a full memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. Then entire
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Analysis. The narrator of "House of Usher" is passing on horseback through a dull part of the country on a grim day, when he comes across the House of Usher. The sight of the house fills him with dread for some reason. He calls this feeling “unsufferable” because it is not accompanied by the romantic feeling that sights of desolation often ...
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Text-01— “The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1839 (There are no known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition.)Text-02 — “The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1839Text-03 — “The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1839-1840Text-04 — “The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1842-1845“The Fall of the House of Usher” — August 1840 — Bentley's Miscellany (reprinted from Text-02, but unacknowledged) (Poe mentions this reprint, as unauthorized, in the Broadway Journalfor September...“The Fall of the House of Usher” — September 5, 1840 — Boston Notion (reprinted from Bentley's Miscellany (Poe mentions this reprint, as unauthorized, in the Broadway Journalfor September 8, 1845)“The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1840 (?) — Boston Daily Times(This reprint was noted by P. K. Foley, but has not been verified)“The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1847 — Prose Writers of America— Griswold reprints Text-07, with some minor editorial changes (Mabbott text E) (first issued March 3, 1847, and reprinted in subse...“The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:131-156)“The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales II, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (3:273-297, and 3:339-342)”The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:392-422)“The Fall of the House of Usher” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 317-336Yet The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death and even Ligeia create shivers long after the concluding lines have been read; there are the images of premature burial, of the swinging pendulum, of the accusing black cat. But more than all this, the power lies in the way the atmosphere and the horror linger in the mind, half ...
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), a pioneer of the short story and a writer who arguably unleashed the full psychological potential of the Gothic horror genre. The story concerns the narrator’s visit to a strange mansion owned by his childhood friend, who is…
