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From this date a marked alteration took place in the outward demeanor of the dissolute young Baron Frederick Von Metzengerstein. Indeed, his behavior disappointed every expectation, and proved little in accordance with the views of many a manoeuvering mamma; while his habits and manner, still less than formerly, offered any thing congenial with those of the neighboring aristocracy. He was never to be seen beyond the limits of his own domain, and, in this wide and social world, was utterly companionless - unless, indeed, that unnatural, impetuous, and fiery-colored horse, which he henceforward continually bestrode, had any mysterious right to the title of his friend.
Numerous invitations on the part of the neighborhood for a Long time, however, periodically came in. "Will the Baron honor our festivals with his presence?" "Will the Baron join us in a hunting of the boar?" - "Metzengerstein does not hunt;" "Metzengerstein will not attend," were the haughty and laconic answers.
These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial - less frequent - in time they ceased altogether. The widow of the unfortunate Count Berlifitzing was even heard to express a hope "that the Baron might be at home when he did not wish to be at home, since he disdained the company of his equals; and ride when he did not wish to ride, since he preferred the society of a horse." This to be sure was a very silly explosion of hereditary pique; and merely proved how singularly unmeaning our sayings are apt to become, when we desire to be unusually energetic. 世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画,让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。
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OLD-WORLD ROMANCES
ATALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
HOP-FROG
METZENGERSTEIN
THE ASSIGNATION (THE VISIONARY)
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

ROMANCES OF DEATH
BERENICE
ELEONORA
LIGEIA
MORELLA
SHADOW- A PARABLE
THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA
THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
SILENCE - A FABLE
THE OVAL PORTRAIT

TALES OF CONSCIENCE
THE BLACK CAT
THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
THE MAN OF THE CROWD
THE TELL-TALE HEART
WILLIAM WILSON

TALES OF DETECTION
THE GOLD-BUG
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE PURLOINED LETTER
"THOU ART THE MAN"

TALES OF ILLUSION
MYSTIFICATION
THE OBLONG BOX
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
THE SPECTACLES
THE SPHINX
THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER

TALES OF NATURAL BEAUTY
LANDOR'S COTTAGE
MORNING ON THE WISSAHICCON
THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM
THE ISLAND OF THE FAY
THE LANDSCAPE GARDEN

TALES OF SCIENCE
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
MESMERIC REVELATION
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY
THE BALLOON-HOAX
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE
THE UNPARALELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL

HUMOROUS TALES
A PREDICAMENT
A TALE OF JERUSALEM
BON-BON
DIDDLING
FOUR BEASTS IN ONE —— THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD
How TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE
KING PEST
LIONIZING
LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ
LOSS OF BREATH
MELLONTA TAUTA
NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD
THE ANGEL OF THE ODD
THE BUSINESS MAN
THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY
THE DUC DE L'OMELETTE
THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK
VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY
WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING
X-ING A PARAGRAB
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