Hop-Frog
£5.99
A dwarf is taken from his homeland and becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses them as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king’s guests, Hop-Frog murders them all before escaping with Trippetta.
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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.
| Weight | 0.09 kg |
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| Dimensions | 18.2 × 11.1 × 0.9 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 144 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Dewey | 813.3 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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