About “The oval portrait”
"The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe, set in a château where a man discovers a disturbing portrait. The story explores the eerie circumstances surrounding the painting. It is one of Poe's shortest works, occupying only two pages in its 1842 publication. The narrative is brief and focuses on the unsettling nature of the portrait and its subject. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1842
- Latest edition
- 1842 · ISBN 0585052190
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