[Gutenberg 2151] • The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Excerpt: ... The Mystery of Marie RogSt . . Frontispiece "There, at some obscure wharf, he would have leaped on land." The Mystery of Marie RogSt .... 70 "He tore it, made it fast about the neck, and so dragged his victim to the brink of the river." "Upon its head, with red, extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast" The Pit and the Pendulum .... 96 Down--steadily down it crept" The Tell-Tale Heart "I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings." no The Gold Bug "Here again he made an anxious examination of the paper." 120 The Spectacles 222 "Meantime I sank aghast into the chair which she had vacated." The Mystery of Marie Roget' A SEQUEL TO "THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE." Es giebt eine Reihe idealischer Begebenheiten, die der Wirklichkeit parallel l uft. Selten fallen sie zusammen. Menschen und Zufalle modificiren gew hnlich die idealische Begebenheit, so dass sie unvollkommen erscheint, und ihre Folgen gleichfalls unvollkommen sind. So bei der Reformation; statt des Protestantismus kam das Lutherthum hervor. There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism.--Novalis {nom de plume of Von Hardenburg) . Moralische Ansichten, HERE are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling halfcredence in the supernatural by coincidences of so 1 Upon the original publication of Mark Rogct the foot-notes now appended were considered unnecessary; but the lapse of several years since Vol. V.--I. J seemingly m...