Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Bon-Bon (short story)

Index Bon-Bon (short story)

"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. [1]

28 relations: Aristophanes, Aristotle, As You Like It, Baltimore Gazette, Bonbon, Catullus, Devil, Edgar Allan Poe, Epigraph (literature), Euphemism, Google Books, Hippocrates, Metaphysics, Metzengerstein, Off-Broadway, Omelette, Periodical literature, Plato, Pneuma, Quintilian, Satire, Short story, Southern Literary Messenger, Stylus, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Venice, Voltaire, William Shakespeare.

Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης,; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Aristophanes · See more »

Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Aristotle · See more »

As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and As You Like It · See more »

Baltimore Gazette

The Baltimore Gazette, also known as the Baltimore Daily Gazette and The Gazette, was a daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland between 1862 and 1875.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Baltimore Gazette · See more »

Bonbon

The name bonbon (or bonbons) refers to any of several types of sweets, especially small candies coated in chocolate.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Bonbon · See more »

Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Catullus · See more »

Devil

A devil (from Greek: διάβολος diábolos "slanderer, accuser") is the personification and archetype of evil in various cultures.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Devil · See more »

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Edgar Allan Poe · See more »

Epigraph (literature)

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Epigraph (literature) · See more »

Euphemism

A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Euphemism · See more »

Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Google Books · See more »

Hippocrates

Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kṓos), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Hippocrates · See more »

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Metaphysics · See more »

Metzengerstein

"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" was the first short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe to see print.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Metzengerstein · See more »

Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Off-Broadway · See more »

Omelette

In cuisine, an omelette or omelet is a dish made from beaten eggs fried with butter or oil in a frying pan (without stirring as in scrambled egg).

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Omelette · See more »

Periodical literature

Periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Periodical literature · See more »

Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Plato · See more »

Pneuma

Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul".

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Pneuma · See more »

Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Quintilian · See more »

Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Satire · See more »

Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Short story · See more »

Southern Literary Messenger

The Southern Literary Messenger was a periodical published in Richmond, Virginia, from August 1834 to June 1864.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Southern Literary Messenger · See more »

Stylus

A stylus, plural styli or styluses, is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Stylus · See more »

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque · See more »

Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Venice · See more »

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and Voltaire · See more »

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

New!!: Bon-Bon (short story) and William Shakespeare · See more »

Redirects here:

The Bargain Lost.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon-Bon_(short_story)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »