The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe.
The story is set in a nameless Italien city in an unspecified year and is about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a pe...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco] :
Otbebookpublishing,
[2017]
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| Series: | Classics to go.
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks |
| Summary: | The story is set in a nameless Italien city in an unspecified year and is about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive--in this case, by immurement, (a form of imprisonment, in which a person is locked within an enclosed space and all possible exits turned into impassable walls). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 0585206449 9780585206448 |