Mystification E-Book

Edgar Allan Poe

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

At college, the eccentric Baron Ritzner von Jung gains fame for his art mystifique, elaborate pranks and refined deception. His greatest exploit comes when a rival challenges him to a duel. Using a pompous, mock-legal "code duello," the Baron turns the encounter into an absurd spectacle, ridiculing the pretensions of honor culture.

Leseprobe

Mystification

Edgar Allan Poe

SYNOPSIS

At college, the eccentric Baron Ritzner von Jung gains fame for his art mystifique, elaborate pranks and refined deception. His greatest exploit comes when a rival challenges him to a duel. Using a pompous, mock-legal “code duello,” the Baron turns the encounter into an absurd spectacle, ridiculing the pretensions of honor culture.

Keywords

Humor, Satire, Deception

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Mystification

Slid, if these be your “passados” and “montantes,” I’ll have none of them —NED KNOWLES.

The Baron Ritzner von Jung was a noble Hungarian family, every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend) was more or less remarkable for talent of some description—the majority for that species of grotesquerie