The Spectacles (annotated) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523473266 ISBN 13: 9781523473267

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1523473266
• ISBN 13: 9781523473267
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 44
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