The Spectacles

"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe''s comedy tales.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, des...