1832 short stories

"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine, in 1832. The story follows the young Frederick, the last of the Metzengerstein family, who carries on a long-standing feud with the Berlifitzing family. Suspected of causing a fire that kills the Berlifitzing family patriarch, Frederick becomes intrigued with a previously unnoticed and untamed horse. Metzengerstein is punished for his cruelty when his own home catches fire and t

first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol

short story by Nikolai Gogol

short story by Edgar Allan Poe

short story by Nikolai Gogol

story by Nikolai Gogol

1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1832 short story by Honoré de Balzac

1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac

short story by Honoré de Balzac

humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe