The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

The Story

Summoned to the House of Usher by a “wildly importunate letter,” which “gave evidence of nervous agitation,” the first-person narrator goes to reside for a time with the writer of this letter, Roderick Usher. Although Roderick had been one of his “boon companions in boyhood,” the narrator confesses early in the story that “I really knew little of my friend”; yet, by the end of this gothic tale, he has learned more about the occupants of the House of Usher than he is equipped to deal with. Indeed, one of these occupants is Roderick's twin sister,...

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• Edgar Allan Poe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Short Fiction)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)

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