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The Angel of the Odd

The Angel of the Odd

Poe, Edgar Allan

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ISBN10: 1729209858
ISBN13: 9781729209851
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 24 2018
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Angel of the Odd (+Biography and Bibliography) (5X8po Glossy Cover Finish): IT WAS a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, with my feet upon the fender, and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit, and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's Leonidas, Wilkies Epigoniad, Lamartine's Pilgrimage, Barlow's Columbiad, Tuckermann's Sicily, and Griswold's Curiosities; I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid. I made effort to arouse myself by aid of frequent Lafitte, and, all failing, I betook myself to a stray newspaper in despair. Having carefully perused the column of houses to let, and the column of dogs lost, and then the two columns of wives and apprentices runaway, I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result. I was about throwing away, in disgust, This folio of four pages, happy work, Which not even poets criticise, when I felt my attention somewhat aroused by the paragraph which follows: ...

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