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Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "King Pest" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which two drunken sailors, Legs and Hugh, enter a strange house during a plague in London. There, they encounter a bizarre court led by King Pest and his grotesque entourage, resulting in strange and darkly funny events.
Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you get if you take Lewis Carroll’s fairy-tale imagination and filter it through Edgar Allan Poe’s terror-ridden and grotesque vision? Add a tint of humour and a pinch of satire and voilà – an allegorically nightmarish Last Supper, situated in a house, previously occupied by an undertaker. Parodying the Black Death, the short story indulges in farcical situations, abnormalities, and a lot of puns. The characters exist in a misshapen, surrealist reality that embraces and caricatures London’s immoral middle-class particularities and pleasures. Come for the author, endure the grotesque, and relish the ending! Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).
Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King Pest, in which there is an allegory, is a story of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe first published in September 1835. King Pest is the main antagonist of the story,"King Pest." He is the supposed ruler of a kingdom, in reality, the kingdomis a basement, and his subjects are a group of six drunken beggars. He first appears, drinking merrily with his subjects, and graciously, allows Hugh and Legs to join their merriment. The King introduces himself and his peers, but this arouses Hugh's suspicion, for the King's lair used to belong to Hugh's friend, Will Wimble the Undertaker. The King becomes slightly offended, but keeps his cool, and speaks politely, warning that rebels will be drowned in October Ale. When, Hugh simply calls the King and the other royals as frauds and actors. This causes the King to angrily declare them treasoners, and orders their death sentence.
Book Synopsis The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brings together, in one convenient edition, all of the information a reader needs to understand Poe's stories. Readable, attractive, and accessible to a general reader or student, it also provides a useful resource for the scholar and specialist. Stuart Levine and Susan Levine tracked down information that is often highly specialized and hard to come by through an extensive program of literary sleuthing--an investigation that took him through the hundreds of places where scholars make their contributions to knowledge.
Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory. & Three Sundays in A Week by Edgar Allan Poe are two of his exciting short stories. This edition is a good introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Book Synopsis King Pest the First by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book King Pest the First written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7, 1849, has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died at 5 a.m. on Sunday, October 7.
Book Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe by : James M. Hutchisson
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by James M. Hutchisson and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the historical realities of nineteenth-century America, including to science and technology, wars and politics, the cult of death and bereavement, and, most controversially, to slavery and stereotyped attitudes toward women. Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism presents a systematic approach to topical criticism of Poe, revealing a new portrait of Poe as an author who blended topics of intellectual and social importance and returned repeatedly to these ideas in different works and using different aesthetic strategies during his brief but highly productive career. Twelve essays point readers toward new ways of considering Poe's themes, techniques, and aesthetic preoccupations by looking at Poe in the context of landscapes, domestic interiors, slavery, prosody, Eastern cultures, optical sciences, Gothicism, and literary competitions, clubs, and reviewing.
Book Synopsis Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by : Dawn B. Sova
Download or read book Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe written by Dawn B. Sova and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
Book Synopsis The Poe Encyclopedia by : Frederick S. Frank
Download or read book The Poe Encyclopedia written by Frederick S. Frank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?? [[ Best known as the author of imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, and as the author of hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe was a leading practitioner of the American Gothic and helped popularize the short story as a genre. This reference work assembles in dictionary format a complete and current body of information on Poe's life and work. More than 1900 entries cover all phases of Poe's art and literary criticism, his family relationships, his numerous travels and residences, and the abundance of critical responses to his works. Each entry provides bibliographical information, and the volume concludes with an extensive listing of works for further consideration. ]] ?? Best known for his mysterious and imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, as well as hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe has secured a lasting place in the American literary canon. He was one of the first American authors to be given serious attention in Europe, and his works popularized the Gothic, the short story, and detective fiction in America. Poe's works are frequently studied in schools and colleges, but he also retains his appeal as one of America's most demanding popular authors. His works reflect his vast and sometimes arcane erudition, his probing insights into the workings of the mind, his theories of literature and aesthetics, and his interest in science and the supernatural. Through more than 1900 alphabetically arranged entries, this reference book provides complete and current coverage of Poe's life and work. Some entries treat Poe's known reading and his responses to literary contemporaries and international literary figures. Others comment on the impact of various writers and literary traditions on Poe's imagination. Still others address Poe's views on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to mesmerism to phrenology. Each entry is supplemented by a bibliographical note which gives the basis for the entry and suggests sources for further investigation. Each entry for Poe's fiction and poetry contains a critical synopsis, and an extensive bibliography at the end of the volume lists the most important critical and biographical studies of Poe.
Book Synopsis Poe's Multiple King Pest by : William Goldhurst
Download or read book Poe's Multiple King Pest written by William Goldhurst and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Humor by : Constance Rourke
Download or read book American Humor written by Constance Rourke and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-02-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself as to others. American Humor, Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character," singles out the archetypal figures of the Yankee peddler, the backwoodsman, and the blackface minstrel to illuminate the fundamental role of popular culture in fashioning a distinctive American sensibility. A memorable performance in its own right, American Humor crackles with the jibes and jokes of generations while presenting a striking picture of a vagabond nation in perpetual self-pursuit. Davy Crockett and Henry James, Jim Crow and Emily Dickinson rub shoulders in a work that inspired such later critics as Pauline Kael and Lester Bangs and which still has much to say about the America of Bob Dylan and Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Book Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 by : Una Pope-Hennessy
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 written by Una Pope-Hennessy and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical biography of the turbulent life of the great American poet, valuable for the insights it provides.
Book Synopsis The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Works of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Class List ...: English prose fiction. 1897 by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Class List ...: English prose fiction. 1897 written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Prose Fiction, Rev. and Enl. 1903 by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book English Prose Fiction, Rev. and Enl. 1903 written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
