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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Island of the Fay” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “The Island of the Fay” — May 1841, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01  (the printing in Graham's is dated at the end as "Philadelphia, May, 1841") “The Island of the Fay” — June 1841 — Graham's — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) “The Island of the Fay” — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — Text 03 (The title 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 Island of the Fay” — October 4, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 04  (Mabbott text B) “The Island of the Fay” — 1850 — WORKS — Text 05  (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “The Island of the Fay” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:84-91) “The Island of the Fay” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:193-199, and 4:307-308) “The Island of the Fay” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:597-606) Associated Material and Special versions: “L'Ile de la fée” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “L'Ile de la fée” — January 28-30, 1855 — Le Pays “L'Ile de la fée” — Part I — January 28, 1855 “L'Ile de la fée” — Part II — January 30, 1855 “L'Ile de la fée” — 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. Ljungquist, Kent P., "Poe's 'Island of the Fay': The Passing of Fairyland," Studies in Short Fiction (1977), 14:265-271. 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. Miller, F. DeWolfe, "The Basis for Poe's 'The Island of the Fay'," American Literature (May 1942), 14:135-140. 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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