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The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Cask of Amontillado

In "The Cask of Amontillado," Poe's choice to set the story in a different time and place allows for the unpunished crime to be more palatable to audiences. Fictional murderers do not necessarily...

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