Hop-Frog: Short Story

Disabled court jester Hop-Frog is moved to elaborate murder when the king strikes the jester’s diminutive friend, Trippetta. “Hop-Frog” is a fearsome tale of revenge by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

From AudioFile

One in a series of musically underscored readings composed and delivered by Winifred Phillips for NPR Playhouse, this suspenseful story concerns a court jester, a dwarf who takes revenge on his tormentors. The performance, however, is more concerned with Phillips's style. The tales she chooses to render are variations on the theme of her own audio art. In this instance, style and content dovetail nicely, if one can call such malevolent material "nice." At times, the music and sound effects upstage the reading or are merely redundant, but overall this is a particularly effective, even understated, piece, as much Phillips's as Poe's. Y.R. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author

Jerome Tiller lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is co-owner of ArtWrite Productions, a publishing company bent on making education and reading more pleasurable for youth. Adapted Classics, an imprint of ArtWrite Productions, uses fine-art illustrations ?to introduce classic stories to young readers. Learn more about Jerome, his co-owner son Paul, and their company at:?artwriteproductions.com?and adaptedclassics.com

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