The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | The Purloined Letter -- The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade -- A Descent into the Maelström -- Von Kempelen and his Discovery -- Mesmeric Revelation -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- The Black Cat -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- Silence: a Fable -- The Masque of the Red Death -- The Cask of Amontillado -- The Imp of the Perverse -- The Island of the Fay -- The Assignation -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Premature Burial -- The Domain of Arnheim -- Landor's Cottage -- William Wilson -- The Tell-Tale Heart -- Berenice -- Eleonora. | | Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2000-04-01 |
Children of the Tenements | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 | en | | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. | Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator] | Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | 2007-05-23 |