Mellonta Tauta [short story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Mellonta Tauta (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): " ON BOARD BALLOON "SKYLARK"April, 1, 2848NOW, my dear friend now, for your sins, you are to suffer the infliction of a long gossiping letter. I tell you distinctly that I am going to punish you for all your impertinences by being as tedious, as discursive, as incoherent and as unsatisfactory as possible. Besides, here I am, cooped up in a dirty balloon, with some one or two hundred of the canaille, all bound on a pleasure show more excursion, (what a funny idea some people have of pleasure!) and I have no prospect of touching terra firma for a month at least. Nobody to talk to. Nothing to do. When one has nothing to do, then is the time to correspond with ones friends. You perceive, then, why it is that I write you this letter it is on account of my ennui and your sins.Get ready your spectacles and make up your mind to be annoyed. I mean to write at you every day during this odious voyage. " show lessTags
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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. In 1827, he enlisted in the United States Army and his first collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems, was published. In 1835, he became the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Over the next ten years, Poe would edit a number of literary journals including the show more Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia and the Broadway Journal in New York City. It was during these years that he established himself as a poet, a short story writer, and an editor. His works include The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Raven. He struggle with depression and alcoholism his entire life and died on October 7, 1849 at the age of 40. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Stories and Poems (Collector's Library Editions) by Edgar Allan Poe (indirect)
The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (indirect)
The Works of Edgar Allen Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notes by Edgar Allan Poe
The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms by Edgar Allan Poe
Speculations: An Introduction to Literature Through Fantasy and Science Fiction by Thomas E. Sanders
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with Selections from His Critical Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Mellonta Tauta [short story]
- Original title
- Mellonta Tauta [short story]
- Original publication date
- 1849-02
- First words*
- 1. April 2848. An Bord des Ballons ›Lerche‹. — Nun sollst Du, mein lieber Freund, zur Strafe Deiner Sünden, diesen langen, schwatzhaften Brief lesen müssen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ich werde das Manuskript in eine Flasche verkapseln und in die See werfen.
Auf immer Deine
Pundita - Original language*
- Englisch
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Science Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Middle 19th Century 1830-1861
- LCC
- PS2618 .M45 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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