The Cask of Amontillado [Paperback]

Edgar Allan Poe (Author)

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Publication Date: February 2, 2004

"The Cask Of Amontillado," by Edgar Allan Poe

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Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell are nationally well-known authors. Having written bestsellers in nearly every English market, they have the deepest publishing record of any handbook author, and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Classics (February 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594561869
• ISBN-13: 978-1594561863
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,076,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sweetest Revenge, February 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cask of Amontillado (Library Binding)

This is Classic Poe... It was a required reading for me in school but after I read it I was compelled to re-read it. This story captivates the reader, while forcing you to ask, Why? Poe never really gets into the insult that occurred, but it is obivious that Poe is the master of Payback. He takes one of his greatest fears, being buried alive and transcends it into this story. What I find fascinating it the extent that he is willing to go to exact his revenge. Not only is his enemy buried alive, but he knows the person who has committed this endeavor

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly Entertaining, July 15, 2002

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Robert N. Schroeter (Scituate, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cask of Amontillado (Creative Classic Series) (Library Binding)

I read this story in college (English 2) and i must say this was probably the best horror story i've ever read.

First, i like to forget about the words he uses for a minute to explain that, although magnificently written, i take the story for how it was meant to be interpreted. And it was meant to leave you with a chill, and a feeling of despair that was so violently left in my stomach that i had to read it again and again.

I can't wait to be sitting around the camp fire to tell this story.

As far as the literary value, i am not shy in saying i didn't understand many of the words, but that's what a dictionary is for, and with the use of both books i came away thrilled with knowing and understanding what is probably one of the best horror stories ever written.

The story is a macabre tail of two men, both upper classmen mindful of their positions in society. One of them; seemingly distraught over past wrongs done, strives to avenge his house by comitting one brutal act. His prey however, does not know his fate until it has met him alone, and face to face...

Big Cheers to Poe for an amazingly entertaining story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I had to read this in school and I loved it!, September 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cask of Amontillado (Library Binding)

The Cask of Amontillado is full of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.It is wonderfully written, and is one of Poe's best short stories. Poe encorperates his fear of being buried alive into this chilling tale.