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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Duc de L'Omelette”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The Duc de L'Omelette” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "The Duc de L'Omelette" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Duc de L'Omelette" — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "The Duc de L'Omelette" — 1842 — manuscript punctuation revisions in  TGAPP — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)

Reprints:
  • "The Duke de L'Omelette" — March 10, 1832 — Baltimore Minerva (reprint from "A")
  • "The Duke de L'Omelette" — March 24, 1832 — Albany Literary Gazette (reprint from "A")
  • "The Duc de L'Omelette" — October 10, 1840 — Bentley's Miscellany (reprint from "C")
  • "The Duc de L'Omelette" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 06  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • “The Duc de L'Omelette” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:3-8)
  • “The Duc de L'Omelette” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:197-202, and 2:373-375)
  • “The Duc de L'Omelette” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:31-41)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "Le duc de l"omelette" — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer  (French translation by William L. Hughes)
  • "Le Duc de L'Omelette" — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)











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Bibliography:
  • Carson, David L. "Ortolans and Geese: Origin of Poe's 'Duc de L'Omelette'," College Language Association Journal (Morgan State College) (March 1965), 8:277-283.
  • Clifton, Michael, "Down Hecate's Chain: Infernal Inspiration in Three of Poe's Tales," Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1986), 41:217-227.
  • Daughrity, K. L., "Poe's Quiz on Willis," American Literature (March 1933), 5:55-62.
  • 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.
  • Hirsch, David, "Another Source for Poe's 'The Duc de L'Omelette'," American Literature (January 1967), 38:532-536.
  • Hirsch, David, " 'The Duc de L:'Omelette' as Anti-Visionary Tale," Poe Studies (1978), 10:36-39.
  • Hudson, Ruth Leigh, "Poe and Disraeli," American Literature (January 1937), 8:402-416.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: 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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