The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
Poe, Edgar Allan; Wharton, Edith; Saki; Dickens, Charles, Collins, Wilkie; Bierce, Ambrose and More
Language: English
Published by Modern Library Paperbacks, 1998
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- Title
- The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
- Author
- Poe, Edgar Allan; Wharton, Edith; Saki; Dickens, Charles, Collins, Wilkie; Bierce, Ambrose and More
- Publisher
- Modern Library Paperbacks
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375752161
- ISBN 13
- 9780375752162
- Seller catalogs
- Essays, Letters, and Anthologies, Fiction::Horror, Fiction::Short Stories, Literature
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the horror story and the chiming lyric poem, opens the volume with his best-loved stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Black Cat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Berenice," and "Ligeia." Every bit as chilling now as on the day they were written, these tales retain their power to stir the reader again and again. Poe, who was as well known for his poems as for his stories, is also represented by such verse standards as "The Raven," "Lenore," "To Helen," "Ulalume," and "Annabel Lee," among others.
Numerous other practitioners of the supernatural story are included: Edith Wharton, with her gripping "Afterward"; Charles Dickens and his famed ghost story "The Signalman"; W. W. Jacobs, with this compilation's inspiration, "The Monkey's Paw." Also here are Saki's engrossing "Sredni Vashtar"; O. Henry's story of love lost and hopes dashed, "The Furnished Room"; Wilkie Collins's lively "A Terribly Strange Bed"; and "The Boarded Window," Ambrose Bierce's tale of the bizarre.
A year-round collection for reading aloud--and frightening your friends--The Raven and the Monkey's Paw will gratify all manner of thrill-seekers.
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About the Author
O. Henry is the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) and the name under which he published all of his work, which includes a novel and some 300 short stories. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. He died in 1849.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a distinguished New York family and was privately educated in America and abroad. In 1905 she published The House of Mirth and two years later moved to France. Author of Ethan Frome and many other novels, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1920 for The Age of Innocence.
Saki is the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916). After working as a foreign correspondent for in the Balkans, Russia, and Paris, Munro settled in London in 1908 and began publishing the short stories and sketches, for which he is remembered. Munro was 43 years old when World War I began, and joined the army as an ordinary trooper. He was killed in France by a German sniper at the age of 46.
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