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This edition contains four short stories: The Man of the Crowd, The Oblong Box, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Purloined Letter. Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of mystery and the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and detective genres in the 19th century.

This edition contains: Alone (1829), Berenice (1832), Ligeia (1838), The Haunted Palace (1838), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), William Wilson (1839), The Man of the Crowd (1840), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), The Oval Portrait (1842), Lenore (1842), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Tell-Tale Heart (1842), The Black Cat (1843), The Premature Burial (1844), The Oblong Box (1844), The Purloined Letter (1844), The Angel of the Odd (1844), The Raven (1845), The Imp of the Perverse (1845), The Facts in the Case of M.

This edition contains four short stories: Berenice, The Premature Burial, The Angel of the Odd, and The Sphinx. Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and horror genres in the 19th century.

This edition contains four short stories: Ligeia, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Imp of the Perverse, and the Pit and the Pendulum. Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and horror genres in the 19th century.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a novella that explores various themes including alienation and identity through the unexpected transformation of its main character, Gregor Samsa. Gregor wakes up one morning to find that he has turned into a giant vermin: a dung beetle. The story explores Gregor's struggle to adapt to his new physical form and the implications this sudden metamorphosis holds for his family, shedding a strange light on certain societal expectations and familial responsibilities at that time.

This edition contains four short stories: The Oval Portrait, The Black Cat, Hop-Frog, and William Wilson. Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and horror genres in the 19th century.

The classic and influential horror story by Mary Shelley tells the tale of a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein who successfully creates a living creature in the exaggerated image of man through his experimentation. Frankenstein must face the consequences of his actions, and so too must the now sapient and lonely creature. The story deals with themes of life and death, fear and longing, duty and vengeance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece of American literature. It is a fascinating moral and philosophical study of Puritan New England that details the life and trials of the long-suffering protagonist Hester Prynne who is forced to wear a scarlet A as a sign of her adultery as she navigates life with her impish daughter Pearl, her estranged husband Roger Chillingworth, and the "saintly" minister Arthur Dimmesdale.

First published in 1859, the classic and influential essay On Liberty was written by John Stuart Mill. An English philosopher, Mill painstakingly expounded upon his ideas of liberty, individuality, and authority through the lens of utilitarianism.

This American classic details the experiences of Henry David Thoreau while he lived at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau, a transcendentalist writer, recounts extensively his reflections on his natural surroundings, as well as his values and experience of independence, self-reliance, and relation to nature and society.

This unique and sometimes disturbingly frank political treatise was written in the early 16th century by Niccolo Machiavelli, a political theorist and Italian diplomat. Machiavelli was writing specifically to Lorenzo de'Medici as an instruction manual for "new princes". His perspective on the aims and glory of princes is a controversial but powerful insight into the cold calculations of men of his station in his time.