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The Spectacles (annotated)

The Spectacles (annotated)

Poe, Edgar Allan

Paperback

HorrorHumorClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1523473266
ISBN13: 9781523473267
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 20 2016
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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.

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