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Metzengerstein
"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine, in 1832. The story follows the young Frederick, the last of the Metzengerstein family, who carries on a long-standing feud with the Berlifitzing family. Suspected of causing a fire that kills the Berlifitzing family patriarch, Frederick becomes intrigued with a previously unnoticed and untamed horse. Metzengerstein is punished for his cruelty when his own home catches fire and t
Christmas Eve
first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
A Terrible Vengeance
short story by Nikolai Gogol
Bon-Bon
short story by Edgar Allan Poe
A Bewitched Place
short story by Nikolai Gogol
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
story by Nikolai Gogol
La Bourse
1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac
La Grenadière
1832 short story by Honoré de Balzac
Madame Firmiani
1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac
The Message
short story by Honoré de Balzac
The Duc de L'Omelette
humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe