Edgar Allan Poe — Tales of Ratiocination

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1. The Gold-Bug (1)
   What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. —All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted an inti…
2. The Gold-Bug (2)
   “And will you promise me, upon your honor, that when this freak of yours is over, and the bug business (good God!) settled to your satisfac…
3. The Gold-Bug (3)
   We now worked in earnest, and never did I pass ten minutes of more intense excitement. During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblo…
4. The Gold-Bug (4)
   “I held the vellum again to the fire, after increasing the heat; but nothing appeared. I now thought it possible that the coating of dirt m…
5. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1)
   What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all c…
6. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (2)
   “The apartment was in the wildest disorder—the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions. There was only one bedstead; and from t…
7. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (3)
   “The ‘Gazette,’” he replied, “has not entered, I fear, into the unusual horror of the thing. But dismiss the idle opinions of this print. I…
8. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (4)
   “Keeping now steadily in mind the points to which I have drawn your attention—that peculiar voice, that unusual agility, and that startling…
9. The Mystery of Marie Roget (1)
   A Sequel to “the Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Es giebt eine Reihe idealischer Begebenheiten, die der Wirklichkeit parallel lauft. Selten fal…
10. The Mystery of Marie Roget (2)
    The editor here proceeds to argue that the body must have been in the water “not three days merely, but, at least, five times three days,”…
11. The Mystery of Marie Roget (3)
    “These assertions have been tacitly received by every paper in Paris, with the exception of Le Moniteur. This latter print endeavors to com…
12. The Mystery of Marie Roget (4)
    “That, in spirit, they are far more worthy of attention than any which have been promulgated upon the subject. The deductions from the prem…
13. The Mystery of Marie Roget (5)
    “You have observed, in your notes, that the most general opinion in relation to this sad affair is, and was from the first, that the girl h…
14. The Mystery of Marie Roget (6)
    “Consider now the circumstance that in the outer garment of the corpse when found, ‘a slip, about a foot wide had been torn upward from the…
15. The Purloined Letter (1)
    Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio.—Seneca. At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold…
16. The Purloined Letter (2)
    “The measures, then,” he continued, “were good in their kind, and well executed; their defect lay in their being inapplicable to the case,…
17. The Man of the Crowd
    Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul.—La Bruyère. It was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich nicht lesen”—it does n…
18. Thou Art the Man (1)
    I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you—as I alone can—the secret of the enginery that effected the…
19. Thou Art the Man (2)
    This latter now came forward, and, with tears in his eyes, asked permission to be examined. He said that a stern sense of the duty he owed…