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Cask of Amontillado, The

American  

noun

  1. a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Cask of Amontillado, The, 140, 174.

From Project Gutenberg

So with the theme of revenge in "The Cask of Amontillado," the theme of mysterious intrigue in "The Assignation."

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