Title: King Pest the First: A Tale Containing an Allegory

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Title: King Pest the First: A Tale Containing an Allegory Title Record # 998406
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1835-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: en.wikisource.org, librivox.org
Language: English

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First published uncredited in the September 1835 Southern Literary Messenger.
See the notes here and this OCR scan.

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Year	Title
1835	King Pest the First: A Tale Containing an Allegory [as by uncredited]
1840	King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory [as by Edgar A. Poe]
1842^ⓘ First published under this title in in Phantasy Pieces in 1842. See the notes here and this OCR scan.	King Pest
1850^ⓘ First published under this title in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. See the notes here and this OCR scan.	King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory

Year	Language	Title
1857^ⓘTranslated by Charles Baudelaire	French	Le roi Peste [as by Edgar Poe]
1901^ⓘTranslated by Hedda Moeller-Bruck [aka Hedda Eulenberg]	German	König Pest: Eine Geschichte, die eine Allegorie enthält
1911^ⓘTranslated by Gisela Etzel	German	König Pest^?Koenig Pest
1960^ⓘTranslated by Charles Baudelaire	French	Le roi Peste
1979^ⓘTranslated by Ion Vinea, Mihu Dragomir and / or Constantin Vonghizas.	Romanian	Regele ciumă^?Regele ciuma
1993^ⓘTranslated by Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus & Erika Gröger	German	König Pest

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