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Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his mystery and macabre tales. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature.

    The Tell-Tale Heart

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    TRUE! -nervous -very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the…
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    A Dream Within A Dream

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    Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the…
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