false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181277593m/1136213.jpg 71014 8 Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular - `The Fall of the House of Usher', `The Masque of the Red Death', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and `The Purloined Letter' - alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays and political satires. 68784 1978 Selected Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) total:98|5:34|4:45|3:14|2:4|1:1| 98 401 196 10 71014 0140621164 9780140621167 66 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201541719m/71014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales 4 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 05:05:27 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 10:32:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 71014 0140621164 9780140621167 66 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201541719m/71014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales 0 0 false Wed Jan 07 20:36:29 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 20:36:57 -0800 2009 1136213 0679725245 9780679725244 3 1 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181277593m/1136213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1136213.Selected_Tales 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:41:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:41:32 -0800 2009 71014 0140621164 9780140621167 66 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201541719m/71014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales 2 0 false Wed Jan 14 23:12:41 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 01:58:34 -0800 2009 71014 0140621164 9780140621167 66 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201541719m/71014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales 5 0 false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991 Tue Aug 07 06:31:37 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 11:46:08 -0700 2007 617504 0192832247 9780192832245 17 2 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176373012m/617504.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617504.Selected_Tales 3 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Mon Mar 24 20:40:07 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 20:40:51 -0700 2008 71014 0140621164 9780140621167 66 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201541719m/71014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales 0 0 false Wed Jul 04 06:40:32 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 06:40:32 -0700 2007
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