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Edgar Allan Poe — “Hop-Frog”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs" — 1849, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Hop-Frog"  — 1850 — WORKS — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • "Hop-Frog" — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co.
  • "Hop Frog" — April 23, 1858 — Vermon Patriot and State Gazette (noted as "published every Friday morning at Montpelier, VT., by Charles G. Eastman") (back page)  (sold on eBay, Nov. 9, 2005)
  • “Hop-Frog” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:330-343)
  • “Hop-Frog” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:216-228, and 6:296)
  • “Hop-Frog” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1343-1357)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Grenouille” — (French translation by William L. Hughes)
    • “Grenouille” — December 23-24, 1855 — Le Mousquetaire
      • “Grenouille” — Part I — December 23, 1855
      • “Grenouille” — Part II — December 24, 1855
    • “Grenouille” — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer
  • “Hop-frog” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “Hop-Frog” — February 23-25, 1855 — Le Pays
      • “Hop-Frog” — Part I — February 23, 1855
      • “Hop-Frog” — Part II — February 24, 1855
      • “Hop-Frog” — Part III — February 25, 1855
    • “Hop-Frog” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
  • "Kikkersprong" — about 1930 — Fantastische Vertellingen van Edgar Allan Poe, Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon (Dutch translation by Machiel Elias Barentz, with elaborate illustrations by Albert Hahn, somewhat reminiscent of those by Harry Clarke)
  • "Hop-Frog" — February 1954 — Nightmare (number 11)  (a comic-book)
  • "Aksak Kurbağa" — 1955 — Altin Böcek [Golden Beetle], Varlik edition, Istanbul (Turkish translation) (the small softbound book has 109 pages. It features "The Gold-Bug" but includes seven other tales.)











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Bibliography:
  • Bachinger, Katrina, "Together (or Not Together) Against Tyranny: Poe, Byron, and Napoleon Upside Down in 'Hop-Frog'," Texas Studies in Language and Literature (1991), 33:373-404.
  • Bryant, John, "Poe's Ape of UnReason: Humor, Ritual, and Culture," Nineteenth-Century Literature, June 1996, 51:16-52
  • Clements, Ruth L., "On a Merry-Go-Round Named Denial: Crticis, 'Hop-Frog,' and Poe," Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany, ed. Benjamin F. Fisher, Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006, pp. 145-154
  • Comeau, Robert C., "Reading Poe on Salary: Mark Twain's Use of 'The Raven,' 'Hop-Frog,' and 'William Wilson' in 'The Facts concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," Southern Literary Journal, Fall 1996, 29:26-34
  • Gottesman, Ronald, " 'Hop-Frog' and the American Nightmare," Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany, ed. Benjamin F. Fisher, Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006, pp. 133-144
  • 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.
  • Houk, Annelle S. and Carlotta L. Bogart, eds., " 'Hop-Frog'," Understanding the Short Story, New York: Odyessy Press, 1969, pp. 31-41.
  • 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.
  • Martin, Bruce K., "Poe's 'Hop-Frog' and the Retreat from Comedy," Studies in Short Fiction (1973), 10:288-290.
  • Mooney, Stephen L., "The Comic in Poe's Fiction," American Literature, January 1962, 33:433-441.
  • Pauly, Thomas H., " 'Hop-Frog' — Is the Last Laugh Best?," Studies in Short Fiction (1974), 11:307-309.
  • 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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