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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Man of the Crowd” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "The Man of the Crowd"  — 1840, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "The Man of the Crowd"  — December 1840 — appeared simultaneously in the last issues of Burton's and The Casket, both in anticipation of merging as Graham's) — Text 02 (Mabbott text A) "The Man of the Crowd" — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — Text 03  (The tale is listed in Poe's handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was probably a modified version of the printed text from Graham's Magazine, and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made in proof, in Text 04) "The Man of the Crowd"  — 1845 — TALES — Text 04 (Mabbott text B) "The Man of the Crowd"  — 1845-1849 — minor manuscript revision in "Graham" copy of TALES — Text 05 (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: "The Man of the Crowd"  — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text 03) (Mabbott text D) “The Man of the Crowd" — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co. “The Man of the Crowd” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:62-74) “The Man of the Crowd” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:134-145, and 4:287-288) “The Man of the Crowd” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:505-518) Associated Material and Special versions: “L'homme des foules” —  (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “L'homme des foules” — January 27-28, 1855 — Le Pays “L'homme des foules” — Part I — January 27, 1855 “L'homme des foules” — Part II — January 28, 1855 “L'homme des foules” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères "L'homme de la foule" — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer  (French translation by William L. Hughes)

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Bibliography: Calanchi, Alessandra, "The Wandering Spectator: 'The Man of the Crowd' di E. A. Poe come esplorazione (pre)tecnologica del tempo e dello spazio," Rivista di studi anglo-americani, 1994, 4:124-135 Dubois, Réne, "Dédale urbain et psychologique; ou, Le Mandala de';'homme des foules'," Journal of the Short Story in English, 1997, 28:46-56 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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