Text-02a — “Shadow. A Fable” — 1835, no original manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02b.)
Text-02b — “Shadow. A Fable” —
September 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text A) (This version was
printed without Poe's name, only as “By ——”)
Text-04a — “Shadow. A Parable”
— 1842 — TGAPP — (Mabbott text D) (This version is a modified form of
Text-03b)
Text-04b — “Shadow. A Parable”
— May 31, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text E) (For Griswold's 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Reprints:
“Shadow.— A Parable” —
1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-06, with very minor editorial changes — (Mabbott
text F) (This is Mabbott's copy-text)
“Shadow. — A Parable” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan
Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 3-5 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856
edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted several times.)
“Shadow. — A Parable”
— 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (vol. II, pp. 210-212) (This collection
was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
“Shadow. — A Parable” — 1888 — The Complete Poetical Works
and Essays on Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John H. Ingram, London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co.
(pp. 146-149) (This tale is included as one of six “Prose Poems,” without further explanation.)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“Shadow — A Parable”
— 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E.
Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:125-128)
“Shadow — A Parable”
— 1897 — The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Poems and Tales, ed. William P.
Trent (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company), pp. 90-95
“Shadow — A Parable”
— 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York:
T. Y. Crowell (2:1-147-150, and 2:355)
“Shadow — A Parable”
— 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:187-187)
“Shadow — A Parable” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and
Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 218-220
”Ombre” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
”L‘Ombre” — August 5, 1854 — Le Pays
”Ombre” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris:
Michel Lévy frères
“Sombras” — September 24, 1858 — La América, vol.
II (Spanish translation, noted by Englekirk, p. 482)
“Shadow” — 1962 — a reading by James Mason, issued as a Lively Arts LP
(LA-30006)
“Shadow — A Parable” — 1969 — a reading by Martin Donegan as
part of volume III of Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, issued on the CMS Records label (CMS-567)
“Shadow — A Parable” — 2010 — Audio book, read by Chris Aruffo
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Bibliography:
Burduck, Michael M., “Justifying the Ways of Death to Men: Milton's Influence on
Poe's 'shadow — A Parable’ and 'silence — A Fable’,” in
Perspectives on Poe, ed. D. Ramakrishna, New Delhi: APC Publications, 1996, pp. 181-190
DeFalco, Joseph, “The Sources of Terror in Poe's 'shadow — A
Parable’,” Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 1969, 6:643-649
Englekirk, John Eugene, Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature, New York: Instituto De
Las Espanas, 1934.
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.
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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