1846-11

The Cask of Amontillado - Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, November 1846

First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'The Cask of Amontillado.'

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The tale's first appearance in print, in the November 1846 Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book (issue pp. 216-218).

Date
1846-11
Credits
Edgar Allan Poe (author)
Publisher
Louis A. Godey — Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book
Where to find it
3 tale pages (issue pp. 216-218); complete issue is 56 scanned pages
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AI-assisted transcription produced by Claude and visually checked against this Internet Archive scan; no independent human proofread. Line wraps, two-column breaks, running heads and page numbers removed for reading; edition wording and spelling (e.g. 'connoisseurship', 'roquelaire', 'Medoc', 'Luchresi') retained. The scan remains authoritative for exact typography and faint punctuation.

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Image PDF - tale pages (issue pp. 216-218)

Pages 26-28 of the received PDF (issue pp. 216-218). A short unrelated poem begins at the foot of the final page.

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Original scan - complete issue (Godey's, Nov 1846)

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Poe, Edgar Allan. 'The Cask of Amontillado.' Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, vol. 33, no. 5 (November 1846): 216-218.

Public domain. First published in the United States in November 1846; copyright long expired. Internet Archive scan of a public-domain serial.

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