Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection 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 ...
This edition also includes new further reading and a chronology, with notes and a glossary. Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) are nowadays simply known as 'the brothers Grimm'.
It faithfully conveys the Grimms' own texts and provides a wealth of information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms, with examples of earlier versions and stories that were omitted as being ...
Sixty-five German folk-fairy tales with explanatory, introductory material, notes on each individual selection, and a glossary of Scots words.
His poem " The Raven" caused a sensation, and was nevermore forgotten, but Edgar Allan Poe produced many more powerful and haunting verses.
The tales in this volume include Poe's best-known and most representative works as well as his masterly "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening.
FURTHER READING BIBLIOGRAPHY Edel, Leon and Dan H. Laurence, A Bibliography of Henry James, 3rd edn. ... Belknap Press, 1974–84) (these volumes overlap to some extent) The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams 1877–1914, ed.
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 ...
Selected Tales
Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe brings together some of his best-known work, including 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Black Cat', 'Ligeia', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Masque of the Red Death'.
The restless, alienated spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna is brilliantly caught in these seven tales - hitherto not readily available together in English translation - by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of the major writers of the period and ...
Full of vitality and insight, these are masterpieces in their own right, besides making a fine introduction to Lawrence's longer and more difficult novels. Selected and introduced by Ian Serraillier. Age 14+
Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection 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 ...