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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"
    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"
    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"
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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"

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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535820493
    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"

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      A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" - Gale

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      The Cask of Amontillado

      Edgar Allan Poe

      1846

      Introduction

      The Cask of Amontillado was first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a monthly magazine from Philadelphia that published poems and stories by some of the best American writers of the nineteenth century, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story next appeared in the collection Poe ‘s Works, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, Poe’s literary executor, in 1850. By the time Poe wrote this story, he was already nationally known as the author of the poem The Raven (1844) and of several short stories collected in a book called, simply, Tales (1845). These earlier stories were widely reviewed and argued over by critics who found them brilliant and disturbing, and their author perplexing and immoral. Although The Cask of Amontillado was not singled out for critical attention when it appeared, it did nothing to change the opinions of Poe’s contemporary admirers and detractors. Like Poe’s other stories, it has remained in print continuously since 1850.

      The story is narrated by Montresor, who carries a grudge against Fortunato for an offense that is never explained. Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers beneath his palazzo with the promise of a taste of Amontillado, a wine that Montresor has just purchased. When the two men reach the last underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall, builds a new wall to seal him in, and leaves him to die. Several sources for the story have been suggested in the last century and a half: Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s historical novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1843); a local Boston legend; a collection of Letters from Italy; and a real quarrel Poe had with two other poets. Wherever Poe got the idea and the impetus for The Cask of Amontillado, this story and Poe’s other short fiction had an undisputed influence on later fiction writers. In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who have looked to Poe include

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