The Businessman Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Orangutans
- Af
- Med
- Forlag
- Varighed
- 0T 25M
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Format
- Kategori
Noveller
"Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.
Critical analysis has suggested that Poe wrote the story as a form of literary revenge against a woman named Elizabeth F. Ellet and her circle.
© 2020 Bookstream Audiobooks (Lydbog): 9783991157823
Udgivelsesdato
Lydbog: 27. november 2020
Andre kan også lide...
- The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe
- The Mask of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe
- The Adventure of the Yellow Face - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Final Problem - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Resident Patient - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Crooked Man - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Virginibus Puerisque IV: The Truth of Intercourse (Unabridged) Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Piazza Herman Melville
- The Lightning-Rod Man Herman Melville
- The Imp of the Perverse Edgar Allan Poe
- The Bell-Tower Herman Melville
- The Story of William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe
- The Poor Relation's Story (Unabridged) Charles Dickens
- The Devil in the Belfry Edgar Allan Poe
- A Descent into the Maelström Edgar Allan Poe
- The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
- The Schoolboy's Story (Unabridged) Charles Dickens
- The Adventure of the Gloria Scott - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- My First Book: 'Treasure Island' (Unabridged) Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Christmas Tree (Unabridged) Charles Dickens
- The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe
