Text-01 — “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-03 — “Hop-Frog” — 1849 — (Speculated copy of the Flag of Our Union
with minor corrections by Poe. This copy has not survived, but is presumably reflected in Text-04)
Text-04 — “Hop-Frog” — 1850 — WORKS
— (Mabbott text B) (This is Mabbott's copy-text)
Reprints:
“Hop-Frog” — March 29, 1849 — Maine Farmer, vol. XVII, no. 13, p. 4, cols. 1-4
(noted by Kevin Hayes) (stated as reprinted “From the Flag of our Union”)
“Hop-Frog” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem,
London, George Routledge & Co., pp. 251-259 (This tale is not included in Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Humour; and
Poems, London: Henry Vizetelly, printed in England about the same time)
“Hop-Frog's Revenge” — July 1855 — Boy's Own Magazine (London, UK),
vol. I, no. 7, pp. 216-221.
“Hop Frog” — March 5-6, 1858 — Evening Star (Washington, DC) vol. XI
“Hop Frog” - Part I — March 5, 1858 — (front page, cols. 1-2) (vol. XI, whole no. 1,598)
“Hop Frog” - Part II — March 6, 1858 — (front page, cols. 1-2) (vol. XI, whole no. 1,599)
“Hop Frog” — March 12, 1858 — Weekly Star (Washington, DC) (announced an issue of
the Evening Star, issued by the same publisher)
“Hop Frog” — April 9, 1858 — Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH) vol. XXV, no.
140, p. 4, cols. 1-3
“Hop Frog” — April 14, 1858 — Weekly News (Vevay, IN), vol. V, no. 3, p. 1, cols.
3-6 (acknowledged as by “Edgar A. Pope [[sic]]”) (Information for this entry was provided to the Poe Society by
Ton Fafianie in an e-mail dated May 5, 2019)
“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” — September 12, 1860 — Geneva Courier (Geneva, NY), vol. XXXI, no. 43
[misprinted as 44], p. 1, cols. 4-6 (acknowledged as by “Edgar A. Poe”)
“Hop Frog” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New York: W.
J. Widdleton), pp. 159-168 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted
several times.)
“Hop Frog” — 1874 — Works of
Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (vol. II, pp. 374-384) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“Hop-Frog” — 1894-1895 — The
Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, 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)
“Hop-Frog” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New
York: Library of America), pp. 899-908
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Comparative and Study Texts:
Instream Comparative and Study Texts:
“Hop-Frog” — Comparative Text (Flag of Our Union
and WORKS)
“Hop-Frog” — Comparative Text (Flag of Our Union
and WORKS) (with the use of quotation marks normalized)
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Associated Material and Special Versions:
Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:
“Grenouille” — (French translation by William L. Hughes)
“Grenouille” — December 23-24, 1855 — Le Mousquetaire
“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 Kurbag(a” — 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.)
“Hop-Frog” — October 27, 1998 — a radio show broadcast on the NPR Playhouse show,
noted as Generations Readio Theater. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has
been modified.) The show was produced by Winnie Waldron and Winifred Phillips. It debuted on XM Satellite Radio on August 16, 2003.
“Hop-Frog” — 2010 — Audio book, read by Chris Aruffo
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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
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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