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    The Cask of Amontillado
    The Cask of Amontillado
    The Cask of Amontillado
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    The Cask of Amontillado

    By Edgar Allan Poe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 7, 2002
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    Edgar Allan Poe

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    • 5/5
      Probably my favorite piece by Poe. I know everyone loves Lovecraft, and there's little doubt as to his influence on the genre and he did write some great works, but I'd take Poe any day. But then it's always subjective, isn't it? The first time I read this, I was in high school and it seriously creeped me out. But then I had grown up a sheltered youth, so perhaps that's understandable because while still an excellent story, it doesn't hold the creep factor it once did after having read so much nightmarish crap, both fictional and real. Nonetheless, strongly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Meh. I'm not a fan of Poe nor his writing style, but I have to admit that this short story was perfect to read with students with the lights off today.
    • 3/5
      This is probably my favorite Poe work. I don't really like his writing style all that much but this story was still good. Retribution is an easy topic to make interesting and Poe did an admirable job.
    • 4/5
      Yeap, he does it again, maybe not as gruesome as The Black Cat, but still disturbing.
    • 1/5
      ths book was a waste of time. i hated reading this book. if you have not read it before...DON'T.
    • 3/5
      i thought it was a good scare. but it needed more detail for some things.
    • 2/5
      i thought this book as like all of edgar allans poes books. It was a little confusing and hard to understand. Some of the names of the character also got a little confusing. the endeing of this book left you in suspense it didnt really tell you want happened.
    • 4/5
      This book was one of my favorites this year because of it's mystery and how it was told. I thought it was written perfectly so you didn't know the full truth. It kind of made you decide who was bad aand who was good. The narrator made it seem like the murderer was crazy. It seemed like he killed the other guy for no reason.
    • 4/5
      The book is about a man who is wronged by another, and wants revenge. The man who wronged him is a wine connoisseur, so he tells him that he has a cask of wine that he bought cheaply. He tells him he wants to know if it is really Amontillado, but if he is busy, he will ask someone else. The connoiseur wants to test it, however, and follows him into the catacombs. The man takes im to the back, and he is never heard from again.
    • 4/5
      Montresor is insulted by his friend Fortunato, and he is upset. The narrator never said what Fortunato said to make Montresor angry. Then Montresor plans his revenge on Fortunato. Later Montresor poisioned Fortunato and builds stone walls around Fortunato leaving him to die.
    • 4/5
      "The Cask of Amontillado" is a story about a man named Montresor who was offended or insulted by another man named Fortunado. As a result, Montresor plans his revenge. He buys some fine wine and invites Fortunado, who is drunk at the time, to have a taste of it in Montresors basement. Fortunado goes, and ends up getting trapped in the basement because Montresor builds a brick wall around him.
    • 2/5
      There are two men at a party. Fortunado is drunk and his acquaintence, Montressor, lures his away by asking him to sample a special cask of wine. He takes Fortunado to the catacombs. There he chains him to a wall, so that he will slowly starve to death. The reason Montressor does this is because Fortunado had insulted him; so to get revenge he kills him.
    • 2/5
      Poe did a good job making the story interesting. After Montresor is insulted by his good friend Fortunato he is upset. The narrator was untruthful and never did tell you what Fortunato said to make Montresor so mad. The story picks up where Montresor is planning his revenge on Fortunato. Later Montresor intoxicates Fortunato and builds stone walls around Fortunato leaving him to die.
    • 3/5
      A man was affended by a man who had a taste for wine. So this man said he bought a cask of amontillado and the man told the one who had a taste for it that he had it. The affender decided to have some even though he was already drunk. So they when to the wine seller when the amontillado was. The affended man lead the affender to a room and locked him up and covered the opening with bricks. The affended got his revenge.
    • 4/5
      This particular piece I studied a few times in school and found something new each time I read it. It sneaks up on you and leaves a chill running down your spine. It kinda gives me that New Orleans Mardi Gras feeling with the description of the costumes and all. I love Poe's work. Great book.

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    The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

    It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

    He had a weak point—this Fortunato—although in other regards he was

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