![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I find it hard to write a pros and cons list (my typical format) for short stories, so instead I will just share some things I thought about and learned after reading The Cask of Amontillado. I am challenging myself to catch up on some classic short stories this year and I have been remiss in reading any of Poe’s work at all (shame on me!)… so I decided to start with one of his short stories. 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. The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Published: November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book ![]()
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