Alone among the Poe stories I've shared, Metzengerstein has some major changes across different versions. Whole paragraphs cut, sentences rewritten, commas, parentheses, and em-dashes used interchangeably, it's a lot.
I tried to match everything as much as possible to the version I have in print, which I think is the final version published in Poe's life.
I'm sure I undoubtedly introduced some minor changes, so now there is yet another version of this story out there.
I would have liked to known the English versions of the French quotes he uses at the start. Were they real or was he just making stuff up?
Alone among the Poe stories I've shared, Metzengerstein has some major changes across different versions. Whole paragraphs cut, sentences rewritten, commas, parentheses, and em-dashes used interchangeably, it's a lot.
I tried to match everything as much as possible to the version I have in print, which I think is the final version published in Poe's life.
I'm sure I undoubtedly introduced some minor changes, so now there is yet another version of this story out there.