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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The original text included the line "It was a dark and stormy night" as a tribute to Edward Bulwer-Lytton. [5] The line was removed in later editions. Poe retitled the story "Bon-Bon—A Tale" when it was republished in the Southern Literary Messenger in August 1835. [6] It was later published in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1845. [7]
Poe originally titled the story "The Duke of L'Omelette" when it was published in the March 3, 1832, issue of the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. [2] It was one of four comedic tales Poe published anonymously in that newspaper that year, along with "A Tale of Jerusalem", "A Decided Loss" (later renamed "Loss of Breath"), and "The Bargain Lost" (later renamed "Bon-Bon"). [3]
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"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights .
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax. [1] The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science fiction genre.
Eureka: by Edgar Allan Poe at Project Gutenberg; Eureka: A Prose Poem – Full text from the 1848 edition; Eureka: A Prose Poem public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Report on Poe's Lecture on "The Universe" by John H. Hopkins, from the New York Evening Express, February 4, 1848 "The Thought of a Thought". MathPages.com.
The full text of The Man of the Crowd at Wikisource; Media related to The Man of the Crowd at Wikimedia Commons; Visual Culture and the Word in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5 public domain audiobook at LibriVox