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The Fall of the House of Usher

By Edgar Allan Poe

First published 1704

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

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1704
Pages
96
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Roderick Usher · Ethelred

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