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Buy the complete tales and poems of edgar allan poe by edgar allan poe online at alibris. The collected works of edgar allan poe vols 23 tales and sketches, cambridge, mass the belknap press of harvard university press, 1978. Great tales and poems of edgar allan poe by edgar allan poe. The fall of the house of usher recounts the terrible events that befall the last remaining members of the onceillustrious usher clan before it is quite literally rent asunder. Upon his mothers death at richmond, virginia, edgar was adopted by a wealthy scotch merchant, john allan.

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