The Devil in The Belfry E-Book

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

In the quiet, obsessively orderly town of Vondervotteimittiss, where clocks and cabbages rule daily life, chaos erupts when a mysterious, devilish figure arrives. With a wild manner and a disruptive spirit, he climbs the belfry and strikes the town's sacred clock at an unexpected hour, throwing the entire village into turmoil. Poe satirizes societal rigidity and conformity through this surreal and humorous tale of disruption and absurdity.

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The Devil in The Belfry

Edgar Allan Poe

SYNOPSIS

In the quiet, obsessively orderly town of Vondervotteimittiss, where clocks and cabbages rule daily life, chaos erupts when a mysterious, devilish figure arrives. With a wild manner and a disruptive spirit, he climbs the belfry and strikes the town’s sacred clock at an unexpected hour, throwing the entire village into turmoil. Poe satirizes societal rigidity and conformity through this surreal and humorous tale of disruption and absurdity.

Keywords

Satire, Order and Chaos, Surrealism

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The Devil in The Belfry

What o’clock is it?—Old Saying.

Everybody knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, was