Hop-Frog

Edgar Allan Poe

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Penguin
15 July 2025

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic horror & ghost stories; Fiction: special features; Violence in society

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

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.

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 182mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 90g
ISBN: 9780241746714
ISBN 10: 024174671X
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.