Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's books, and about them
Jude the Obscure on The Raven: “…of them all, "in her little white frock, and shoes, and pink sash"; how she recited "Excelsior," "There was a sound of revelry by night," and "The Raven"; how during the delivery she would knit her little brows and glare round tragically, and say to the empty air, as if some real creature…”
Sons and Lovers on The Raven: “The lady—Mrs. Dawes—it ought to be Mrs. The Raven that quothed 'Nevermore.'”
Carrie on The Raven: “A bust of Pallas, used in some ancient dramatic version of Poe's "The Raven," stared at Billy with blind, floating eyes from atop a rusting bedspring.”
Gai-Jin on The Murders in the Rue Morgue: “...the book, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, was one that Dmitri had loaned him this morning saying: 'Think you'll like it, Malc, it's what they call a detective story.'”
The Golden Bowl on The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: “a wonderful tale by Allan Poe, his prospective wife's countryman … the story of the shipwrecked Gordon Pym, who, drifting in a small boat further toward the North Pole”
From the Earth to the Moon on The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall: “a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a balloon … reached the moon after a passage of nineteen hours. This journey, like all previous ones, was purely imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author—I mean Edgar Poe!”