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HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE by Edgar Allan Poe “In the name of the Prophet—figs!!” Cry of the Turkish fig-peddler. I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs. I have been assured […]

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A PREDICAMENT by Edgar Allan Poe What chance, good lady, hath bereft you thus? —COMUS. IT was a quiet and still afternoon when I strolled forth in the goodly city of Edina. The confusion and bustle in the streets were terrible. Men were talking. Women were screaming. Children were choking. Pigs were whistling. Carts they […]

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LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poee And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness […]

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SILENCE A FABLE by Edgar Allan Poe ALCMAN. The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. “LISTEN to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no […]

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SONNET—TO ZANTE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take! How many memories of what radiant hours At sight of thee and thine at once awake! How many scenes of what departed bliss! How many thoughts of what entombed hopes! How […]

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BRIDAL BALLAD POEM by Edgar Allan Poe The ring is on my hand. And the wreath is on my brow; Satin and jewels grand Are all at my command, And I am happy now. And my lord he loves me well; But, when first he breathed his vow, I felt my bosom swell— For the […]

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MYSTIFICATION by Edgar Allan Poe Slid, if these be your “passados” and “montantes,” I’ll have none o’ them. —NED KNOWLES. THE BARON RITZNER VON JUNG was a noble Hungarian family, every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend) was more or less remarkable for talent of some […]

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NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society […]

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Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 1-5 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 6-10 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 11-15 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 16-20 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 21-25 NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM CHAPTER 1 MY name is Arthur […]

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Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 1-5 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 6-10 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 11-15 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 16-20 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 21-25 NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM CHAPTER 6 THE leading particulars of […]

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Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 1-5 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 6-10 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 11-15 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 16-20 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 21-25 NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM CHAPTER 11 WE spent the remainder […]

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Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 1-5 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 6-10 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 11-15 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 16-20 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 21-25 NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM CHAPTER 16 It had been Captain […]

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