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Quotation from Tales (Selection) by Edgar Allan Poe
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens”
Tales (Selection), The Fall of the House of Usher (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text)
The opening of the tale, as the narrator rides alone toward the melancholy House of Usher.
Citation: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens" — Edgar Allan Poe, Tales (Selection), The Fall of the House of Usher (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text). (id poe-tales-q4)
Portrait: Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off, Unknown author Unknown author ; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
