Hop-Frog: Penguin Archive
SKU: 9780241746714
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Author:POE Edgar Allan
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ISBN:9780241746714
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Publication Date:July 2025
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Pages:144
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:United Kingdom
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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 destabilisingly 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.