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Edgar Allan Poe — “King Pest”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “King Pest. A Tale containing an Allegory” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "King Pest the First. A Tale containing an Allegory" — 1835, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "King Pest the First. A Tale containing an Allegory" — September 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)
  • "King Pest the First. A Tale containing an Allegory" — 1838 — manuscript revisions in Duane copy of  Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03 (Mabbott text B)
  • "King Pest" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 05 (Mabbott text D)

Reprints:
  • "King Pest. A Tale containing an Allegory"  — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 06 (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)  (Griswold corrects several typographical errors, and there is one minor verbal difference. Mabbott presumes that this is auctorial, but it might just as easily be a misreading by the typesetter as it repeats a word used earlier in the same sentence.)
  • “King Pest” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:58-74) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “King Pest” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:168-184, and 2:367-370)
  • “King Pest” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:238-255)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Le roi peste” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “Le roi peste” — January 23-27, 1855 — Le Pays
      • “Le roi peste” — Part I  (January 23, 1855)
      • “Le roi peste” — Part II  (January 26, 1855)
      • “Le roi peste” — Part III  (January 27, 1855)
    • “Le roi peste” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères











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Bibliography:
  • Goldhurst, William, "Poe's Multiple King Pest: A Source Study," Tulane Studies in English (1972), 20:107-121.
  • 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.
  • Lucas, Mary, "Poe's Theatre: 'King Pest' and 'Hop-Frog'," Journal of the Short Story in English (1990), 14:25-40.
  • 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.
  • Whipple, William, "Poe's Political Satire," University of Texas Studies in English (1956), 35:81-95.
  • 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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