The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum,""The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this v...

The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American n...