Edgar Allan Poe Works

OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not–especially under the circumstances. Through the desire of all parties concerned, to keep the affair from the public, at least for the present, or [...]

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WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession– an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by [...]

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THE SYMPOSIUM of the preceding evening had been a little too much for my nerves. I had a wretched headache, and was desperately drowsy. Instead of going out therefore to spend the evening as I had proposed, it occurred to me that I could not do a wiser thing than just eat a mouthful of [...]

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Truth is stranger than fiction.–OLD SAYING. HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsoornot, a work which (like the Zohar of Simeon Jochaides) is scarcely known at all, even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American– if we except, perhaps, [...]

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The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Joseph Glanville. WE had now reached the summit of the [...]

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Qui n’a plus qu’un moment a vivre N’a plus rien a dissimuler. –Quinault –Atys. OF my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other. Hereditary wealth afforded me an education of no common order, and [...]

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ASTOUNDING NEWS BY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK!– The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days!– Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason’s Flying Machine!– Arrival at Sullivan’s Island, near Charlestown, S. C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering Balloon, Victoria, after a Passage of Seventy–five Hours from Land [...]

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There is, strictly speaking, but little similarity between this sketchy trifle and the very celebrated and very beautiful “Moon–story” of Mr. Locke– but as both have the character of hoaxes, (although one is in the tone of banter, the other of downright earnest) and as both hoaxes are on the same subject, the moon– the [...]

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