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Edgar Allan Poe — “Mystification”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Mystification” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Von Jung, the Mystific" — 1837, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Von Jung, the Mystific"  — June 1837, text "A" — American Monthly — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Von Jung"  — 1840 — TGA — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Mystification" — 1842 — manuscript title revision in TGAPP — Text 04 (This revision lost, but presumably recorded in Text 05)
  • "Mystification" — December 27, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • “Mystification" — June 3, 1837 — Boston Pearl and Galaxy  (noted by Ljungquist)
  • "Mystification"  — 1856 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • “Mystification” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (3:289-300)
  • “Mystification” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:102-113, and 4:278-283)
  • “Mystification” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:292-305)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "Une mystification" — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
  • "Mystification" — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi)











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Bibliography:
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Pollin, Burton R.,"Poe's 'Mystification': Its Source in Fay's Norman Leslie," Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 1972, 25:111-130.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
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