The Cask of Amontillado Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826). Poe wrote his tale, however, as a response to his personal rival Thomas Dunn English. Poe and English had several confrontations, usually revolving around literary caricatures of one another. Poe thought that one of English's writings went a bit too far, and successfully sued the other man's editors at "The New York Mirror" for libel in 1846. That year English published a revenge-based novel called "1844, or, The Power of the S.F." Its plot
The Last Wish (book) The Last Wish (book) The Last Wish () is the first (in its fictional chronology; published second in original Polish) of the two collections of short stories (the other being "Sword of Destiny") preceding the main "Witcher Saga", written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The first Polish edition was published in 1993, the first English edition was first published in 2007. The book has also been translated into several other languages. The collection contains six short stories interspersed with a continuing frame story; Geralt of Rivia, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple. During that time