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HOP-FROG

EDGAR ALLAN POE

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Publisher:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-74671-4
Pages:
144
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Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.

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