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The Oval Portrait
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Within Vinony's link graph, The Oval Portrait is referenced by 142 other articles, and connects out to Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde.
Vinony files it under 1842 short stories, Gothic short stories and Short stories adapted into films.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre
- horror literature
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Poe's Tales of Mystery-Rackham-179.jpg
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- title
- Le Portrait ovale
- first line
- The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appenines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.
- publication date
- 1842-00-00
- published in
- Graham's Magazine
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- The Oval Portrait
- last line
- “And then the brush was given, and then the tint was placed; and, for one moment, the painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought; but in the next, while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, ‘This is indeed Life itself!’ turned suddenly to regard his beloved:—She was dead!”
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- flash fiction
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/poe/ovale/ovale.html
- time period
- Romanticism
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