Edgar Allan Poe — “Hop-Frog”

Reading copy:

• “Hop-Frog” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” — (There are no known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition. In regard to the date of composition, Mabbott (T&S, 3:1344) states only “The tale was finished on February 7, 1849, as Poe related in a letter of the next day to Annie Richmond, wherein he remarked that the owner of the Boston Flag had offered him five dollars a Graham page, and he had accepted, ‘to get out of my pecuniary difficulties.’ Poe calls it ‘5 prose pages’ and the price must have been twenty-five dollars.”)
• Text-02 — “Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” — 1849
  • Text-02a — “Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” — late January or early February 1849
  • Text-02b — “Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” — March 17, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “Hop-Frog: or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” — 1849
  • Text-03a — “Hop-Frog” — 1849 — (Speculated copy of the Flag of Our Union with minor corrections by Poe. This copy has not survived, but is presumably reflected in Text-04)
  • Text-03b — “Hop-Frog” — 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text B — This is Mabbott's copy-text)

Reprints:

• “Hop-Frog” — March 29, 1849 — Maine Farmer, vol. XVII, no. 13, p. 4, cols. 1-4 (noted by Kevin Hayes) (stated as reprinted “From the Flag of our Union”)
• “Hop-Frog” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co., pp. 251-259 (This tale is not included in Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Humour; and Poems, London: Henry Vizetelly, printed in England about the same time)
• “Hop-Frog's Revenge” — July 1855 — Boy's Own Magazine (London, UK), vol. I, no. 7, pp. 216-221.
• “Hop Frog” — March 5-6, 1858 — Evening Star (Washington, DC) vol. XI
  • “Hop Frog” - Part I — March 5, 1858 — (front page, cols. 1-2) (vol. XI, whole no. 1,598)
  • “Hop Frog” - Part II — March 6, 1858 — (front page, cols. 1-2) (vol. XI, whole no. 1,599)
• “Hop Frog” — March 12, 1858 — Weekly Star (Washington, DC) (announced an issue of the Evening Star, issued by the same publisher)
• “Hop Frog” — April 9, 1858 — Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH) vol. XXV, no. 140, p. 4, cols. 1-3
• “Hop Frog” — April 14, 1858 — Weekly News (Vevay, IN), vol. V, no. 3, p. 1, cols. 3-6 (acknowledged as by “Edgar A. Pope [[sic]]”) (Information for this entry was provided to the Poe Society by Ton Fafianie in an e-mail dated May 5, 2019)
• “Hop Frog” — April 23, 1858 — Vermon Patriot and State Gazette (noted as “published every Friday morning at Montpelier, VT., by Charles G. Eastman”) (back page)  (sold on eBay, Nov. 9, 2005)
• “Hop Frog” — September 12, 1860 — Geneva Courier (Geneva, NY), vol. XXXI, no. 43 [misprinted as 44], p. 1, cols. 4-6 (acknowledged as by “Edgar A. Poe”)
• “Hop Frog” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 159-168 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted several times.)
• “Hop Frog” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (vol. II, pp. 374-384) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
• “Hop-Frog” — January 11, 1874 — Brooklyn Sunday Sun (Brooklyn, NY), vol. I, no. 7, p. 2, cols. 1-4 (acknowleged as by “Edgar A. Poe.”)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Hop-Frog” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:330-343)
• “Hop-Frog” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:216-228, and 6:296)
• “Hop-Frog” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1343-1357)
• “Hop-Frog” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 899-908
• “Hop-Frog” — 2015 — The Annotated Poe, ed. Kevin J. Hayes (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), pp. 359-369

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• “Hop-Frog” — Comparative Text (Flag of Our Union and WORKS)
• “Hop-Frog” — Comparative Text (Flag of Our Union and WORKS) (with the use of quotation marks normalized)

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Grenouille” — (French translation by William L. Hughes)
• “Grenouille” — December 23-24, 1855 — Le Mousquetaire
  • “Grenouille” — Part I — December 23, 1855
  • “Grenouille” — Part II — December 24, 1855
• “Grenouille” — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d‘Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer
• “Hop-Frog” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
  • “Hop-Frog” — February 23-25, 1855 — Le Pays
    • “Hop-Frog” — Part I — February 23, 1855
    • “Hop-Frog” — Part II — February 24, 1855
    • “Hop-Frog” — Part III — February 25, 1855
  • “Hop-Frog” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
• “Hop Frog” — August 16, 1919 — Winnipeg Evening Tribune (Winnipeg, Canada), vol. XXX, no. 187, p. 39, col. 1 (acknowledged as by “Edgen [[Edgar]] Allan Poe”) (This is a highly abridged summary of Poe's story)
• “Kikkersprong” — about 1930 — Fantastische Vertellingen van Edgar Allan Poe, Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon (Dutch translation by Machiel Elias Barentz, with elaborate illustrations by Albert Hahn, somewhat reminiscent of those by Harry Clarke)
• “Hop-Frog” — February 1954 — Nightmare (number 11)  (a comic-book)
• “Aksak Kurbag(a” — 1955 — Altin Böcek [Golden Beetle], Varlik edition, Istanbul (Turkish translation) (the small softbound book has 109 pages. It features “The Gold-Bug” but includes seven other tales.)
• “Hop-Frog” — October 27, 1998 — a radio show broadcast on the NPR Playhouse show, noted as Generations Readio Theater. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has been modified.) The show was produced by Winnie Waldron and Winifred Phillips. It debuted on XM Satellite Radio on August 16, 2003.
• “Hop-Frog” — 2010 — Audio book, read by Chris Aruffo

• Bachinger, Katrina, “Together (or Not Together) Against Tyranny: Poe, Byron, and Napoleon Upside Down in ‘Hop-Frog’,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature (1991), 33:373-404.
• Bryant, John, “Poe's Ape of UnReason: Humor, Ritual, and Culture,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, June 1996, 51:16-52
• Clements, Ruth L., “On a Merry-Go-Round Named Denial: Crticis, ‘Hop-Frog,’ and Poe,” Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany, ed. Benjamin F. Fisher, Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006, pp. 145-154
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• Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
• Houk, Annelle S. and Carlotta L. Bogart, eds., “ ‘Hop-Frog’,” Understanding the Short Story, New York: Odyessy Press, 1969, pp. 31-41.
• Lucas, Mary, “Poe's Theatre: ‘King Pest’ and ‘Hop-Frog’,” Journal of the Short Story in English (1990), 14:25-40.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Martin, Bruce K., “Poe's ‘Hop-Frog’ and the Retreat from Comedy,” Studies in Short Fiction (1973), 10:288-290.
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• Pauly, Thomas H., “ ‘Hop-Frog’ — Is the Last Laugh Best?,” Studies in Short Fiction (1974), 11:307-309.
• Wyllie, John Cooke, “A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales,” Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.