Category: Novels

My Friend Annabel Lee

CHAPTER PAGE I. The Coming of Annabel Lee 1 II. The Flat Surfaces of Things 7 III. My Friend Annabel Lee 13 IV. Boston 15 V. A Small House in the Country 29 VI. The Half-Conscious Soul 35 VII. The Young-Books of Trowbridge 43 VIII. “Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” 55 IX....

Chapters

6. Part 6

One is a vision of her as a playful child-companion who is with me in all my summer days, and shares all her quaint thoughts with me, and asks me countless questions and accepts...

8. Part 8

“So it would,” said my friend Annabel Lee. “Now, when you grow old--though you will never be that which is called an old lady--you will be quite mellow. And probably the less yo...

4. Part 4

“Also unawares,” said my friend Annabel Lee, “you still think things relating to that which is one day to open wondrously for you. But, never mind,” she added hastily, as I was...

5. Part 5

“And little Delilah Spoon-bill, who was an elementary, fanciful child of nine, used to stand staring at this legend and wondering about it. A weeping willow hung low over the gr...

3. Part 3

“Nothing is relative,” said Annabel Lee. “If your dog’s splendid fur coat is full of fleas and you caress your dog with your hands, then presently you may acquire numbers of the...

1. Part 1

CHAPTER PAGE I. The Coming of Annabel Lee 1 II. The Flat Surfaces of Things 7 III. My Friend Annabel Lee 13 IV. Boston 15 V. A Small House in the Country 29 VI. The Half-Conscio...

2. Part 2

In the night, when the sun had gone and the earth had cooled and the dark, dark gray had fallen over all, we would sit again on the doorstep. It would be lonesome there, with th...

7. Part 7

“There were a great number of things that the Kaatenstein children were not allowed to do--the things they were allowed to do were as nothing by comparison, and the things they...

9. Part 9

_My friend, Annabel Lee--with your strong, brave little heart and your two strong little hands, you were with me in my weary, bitter day. You were brave enough for two. It is to...