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amandarachal85
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In what year did the story "The Cask of Amontillado take place?

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Posted by amandarachal85 on Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 8:03 AM and tagged with setting, the cask of amontillado.

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  1. bmadnick Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    We aren't given the exact year, but we can guess the time period is the eighteenth or nineteenth century based on clues in the story. Montresor's cape, vocabulary, and the torches would seem to indicate one of these centuries. Those who have traced the Montresor family name and the history of Mardi Gras have placed the murder in 1796, according to one person, and in 1787 or 1788 by another expert.

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    Posted by bmadnick on Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 8:13 AM


  2. mickey2bailey Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    "The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the Godey's Lady's Book, 33, (November, 1846) 216-218.  It is a monthly magazine from Philadelphia that published poems and stories by some of the best American writers of the nineteenth century, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story next appeared in the collection Poe's Works, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, Poe's literary executor, in 1850. By the time Poe wrote this story, he was already nationally known author. Like Poe's other stories, it has remained in print continuously since 1850."

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    Posted by mickey2bailey on Wednesday October 31, 2007 at 9:07 PM