Can anyone please list a table of contents for the specific edition of Selected Poems and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe published by Barnes & Noble in 2004, with the Neil Gaiman introduction and Mark Summers illustrations, ISBN 9780760756744--not to mention the other "21 editions"? Just looking at the number of pages of this and several others, it seems they CAN'T be reprints of the exact same contents, but DIFFERENT books with the SAME title. (One source said originally published in 1943, which I doubt...but if I could even get the table of contents to the 1943 edition it would be a start.) Please correct me if mistaken! Thanks.
Need because I have decided on this book out of countless possibilities, as containing both tales and poems, but not so horribly many I can't get through them all by Poe's 210th birthday on January 19 if I start NOW! Every other collection I found contains either tales or poems or has everything when I only need a good selection, or is loaded down with essays and glossaries and extra educational crap. Ordered this on the 14th but don't know when it will arrive.
MUST START NOW to finish in time!
CAN'T START without knowing what is in this specific collection, to try to avoid wasting time on items not in this collection, or rushing through everything I can, and then when the collection arrives, finding I blew it by actually finishing BEFORE the 19th! (Well, I guess I could if I just left the introduction till last, but knowing makes me feel better.) Details of what I need are below, and details of why I couldn't find this information myself is in the "What I Did Today" thread. Thanks!
My Halloween viewing inspired me to find this gem of an audio collection of which details are as follows.
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection(CD, Compilation)
Label: Caedmon Records – CD 4148(5)
Format: 5 × CD, Compilation
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 03 Oct 2000
Genre:
Non-Music
Style: Audiobook, Spoken Word
Tracklist
1-1 To- Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:48
1-2 Alone Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:01
1-3 The City In The Sea Narrator – Basil Rathbone 3:01
1-4 The Fall Of The House Of Usher Narrator – Basil Rathbone
22:57
1-5 The Haunted Palace Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:15
1-6 The Pit And The Pendulum Narrator – Basil Rathbone 30:27
2-1 The Masque Of The Red Death Narrator – Basil Rathbone
16:25
2-2 The Tell-Tale Heart Narrator – Basil Rathbone 13:40
2-3 The Black Cat Narrator – Basil Rathbone 25:57
3-1 The Raven Narrator – Basil Rathbone 8:15
3-2 The Facts Of The Case Of M. Valdemar
Narrator – Basil Rathbone 16:15
3-3 The Cask Of Amontillado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 15:45
3-4 The Bells Narrator – Basil Rathbone 4:02
3-5 Annabel Lee Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:03
3-6 Eldorado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 0:39
4-1 Ligeia Narrator – Vincent Price 47:03
4-2 The Imp Of The Perverse Narrator – Vincent Price 14:06
4-3 Morella Narrator – Vincent Price 14:45
5-1 Berenice Narrator – Vincent Price 23:50
5-2 The Gold Bug Narrator – Vincent Price 53:50
The entire collection is available online for free here: 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone | Open Culture
There was, however, some complaint about poor sound quality. Not to worry, though, most or all of the selections are on YouTube and what I heard sounded fine!
Also performed by Vincent Price, but not in this collection:
The Tell-Tale Heart, running time 14:16
The Sphinx, running time 22:03
The Pit and the Pendulum, running time 15:44
The Raven, running time 9:58
The Conqueror Worm, running time 3:44
Total running time 8 or 10 hours or something...math isn't my best thing.
Need because I have decided on this book out of countless possibilities, as containing both tales and poems, but not so horribly many I can't get through them all by Poe's 210th birthday on January 19 if I start NOW! Every other collection I found contains either tales or poems or has everything when I only need a good selection, or is loaded down with essays and glossaries and extra educational crap. Ordered this on the 14th but don't know when it will arrive.
MUST START NOW to finish in time!
CAN'T START without knowing what is in this specific collection, to try to avoid wasting time on items not in this collection, or rushing through everything I can, and then when the collection arrives, finding I blew it by actually finishing BEFORE the 19th! (Well, I guess I could if I just left the introduction till last, but knowing makes me feel better.) Details of what I need are below, and details of why I couldn't find this information myself is in the "What I Did Today" thread. Thanks!
My Halloween viewing inspired me to find this gem of an audio collection of which details are as follows.
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection(CD, Compilation)
Label: Caedmon Records – CD 4148(5)
Format: 5 × CD, Compilation
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 03 Oct 2000
Genre:
Non-Music
Style: Audiobook, Spoken Word
Tracklist
1-1 To- Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:48
1-2 Alone Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:01
1-3 The City In The Sea Narrator – Basil Rathbone 3:01
1-4 The Fall Of The House Of Usher Narrator – Basil Rathbone
22:57
1-5 The Haunted Palace Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:15
1-6 The Pit And The Pendulum Narrator – Basil Rathbone 30:27
2-1 The Masque Of The Red Death Narrator – Basil Rathbone
16:25
2-2 The Tell-Tale Heart Narrator – Basil Rathbone 13:40
2-3 The Black Cat Narrator – Basil Rathbone 25:57
3-1 The Raven Narrator – Basil Rathbone 8:15
3-2 The Facts Of The Case Of M. Valdemar
Narrator – Basil Rathbone 16:15
3-3 The Cask Of Amontillado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 15:45
3-4 The Bells Narrator – Basil Rathbone 4:02
3-5 Annabel Lee Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:03
3-6 Eldorado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 0:39
4-1 Ligeia Narrator – Vincent Price 47:03
4-2 The Imp Of The Perverse Narrator – Vincent Price 14:06
4-3 Morella Narrator – Vincent Price 14:45
5-1 Berenice Narrator – Vincent Price 23:50
5-2 The Gold Bug Narrator – Vincent Price 53:50
The entire collection is available online for free here: 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone | Open Culture
There was, however, some complaint about poor sound quality. Not to worry, though, most or all of the selections are on YouTube and what I heard sounded fine!
Also performed by Vincent Price, but not in this collection:
The Tell-Tale Heart, running time 14:16
The Sphinx, running time 22:03
The Pit and the Pendulum, running time 15:44
The Raven, running time 9:58
The Conqueror Worm, running time 3:44
Total running time 8 or 10 hours or something...math isn't my best thing.