LITTLE CLASSICS
EDITED BY
ROSSITER JOHNSON
STORIES OF
TRAGEDY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1914
COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | 7 |
| The Lauson Tragedy | J. W. DeForest | 56 |
| The Iron Shroud | William Mudford | 108 |
| The Bell-Tower | Herman Melville | 128 |
| The Kathayan Slave | Emily C. Judson | 149 |
| The Story of La Roche | Henry Mackenzie | 165 |
| The Vision of Sudden Death | Thomas De Quincey | 182 |
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE.
“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed whenhe hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyondall conjecture.”—Sir Thomas Browne.
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