The Spectacles

The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles.

• • Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 04, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 28 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1544063083
• • ISBN-13: 9781544063089