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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1839, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — December 1839 — Burton's — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1840 — TGA — Text 03  (Mabbott text B) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — Text 04 (The title is listed in Poe's handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made in proof, in Text 05.) “The Destruction of the World” — April 1, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 05  (Mabbott text C) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1845 — TALES — Text 06  (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 05  (Mabbott text E) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — April 19, 1857 — The Missouri Republican (presumably from the 1856 or 1857 reprint of Works) (The full story was printed on the front page of this newspaper.) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:228-235) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:1-8, and 4:275-277) “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:451-462) Associated Material and Special versions: “Le Colloque d'Eros et Charmion” — July 3, 1847 — La Démocratie Pacifique  (French translation signed "Isabelle Meunier") “Conversation d'Eiros avec Charmion” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “Entretien d'Eiros avec Charmion” — July 27, 1854 — Le Pays “Conversation d'Eiros avec Charmion” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères

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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. Kock, Christian, "The Irony of Oxygen in Poe's 'Eiros and Charmion'," Studies in Short Fiction (1985), 22:317-321. 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. Robinson, Douglas, "Poe's Mini-Apoclypse: 'The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion'," Studies in Short Fiction (1982), 19:329-337. Varner, Cornelia, "Notes on Poe's Use of Contemporary Materials in Certain of his Stories," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January 1933, 32:77-80. 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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