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Edgar Allan Poe — “Bon-Bon”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Bon-Bon” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "The Bargain Lost" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Bargain Lost" — December 1, 1832 — Saturday Courier — Text 02  (Mabbott text A1)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this title)
  • "Bon-Bon" — August 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Bon-Bon" — 1840 — manuscript revisions in "Duane" copy of  Southern Literary Messenger — Text 04  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Bon-Bon" — 1840 — TGA — Text 05  (Mabbott text C)
  • "Bon-Bon" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 06  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Bon-Bon" — April 19, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 07  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Bon-Bon" — 1850, text "F" — WORKS — Text 08  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this title)

Reprints:

There is only one known reprint of the tale during Poe's lifetime.
  • “Bon-Bon” — July 1845 — Spirit of the Times  (from Text 07)
    • “Bon-Bon [part I]” — July 22, 1845
    • “Bon-Bon [part II]” — July 23, 1845
This story has been included, however, in numerous collections of Poe's works, for which a few prominent examples will be sufficient
  • “Bon-Bon” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “Bon-Bon” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:22-43) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “Bon-Bon” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:125-146, and 2:348-354)
  • “The Bargain Lost” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:83-95)
  • “Bon-Bon” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:96-117)
  • “Bon-Bon” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. ???-???

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "Le philosophe Bon-Bon" — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
  • "Bon-Bon" — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)
  • "Le marché manqué" — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier of "The Bargain Lost")











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Bibliography:
  • Bachinger, Katrina E., "Towards a New Era in Poe Stdies: The Case for a Byronic Interpretation of Poe's Tales Illustrated by 'A Decided Loss' and 'Bon-Bon',"in Salzburg Miscellany: English and American Studies 1964-1984, ed. Wilfried Haslauer, Salzburg, Austra: Institut fur Anglistik & Amerikanstik, University of Salzburg, 1984, 1:37-54.
  • Christie, James W., "Poe's 'Diabolical' Humor: Revisions in 'Bon-Bon'," Library Chronicle (1976), 41:44-45
  • Daughrity, Kenneth Leroy, "Notes: Poe and Blackwood's," American Literature (Nov. 1930), 2:289-292
  • Evans, Robert C., "Poe, O'Connor, and the Mystery of the Misfit," Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, 1996-1997, 25:1-12
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Hudson, Ruth Leigh, "Poe and Disraeli," American Literature (January 1937), 8:402-416.
  • Lynch, James J., "The Devil in the Writings of Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe," New York Folklore Quarterly (Summer 1952), 8:111-113.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
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