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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…
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The Gold-Bug - (2)
“I am anxious to oblige you in any way,” I replied; “but do you mean to say that this infernal beetle has any connection with your expediti…
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The Gold-Bug - (3)
At sight of these the joy of Jupiter could scarcely be restrained, but the countenance of his master wore an air of extreme disappointment.…
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The Gold-Bug - (4)
“Never.” “But that Kidd’s accumulations were immense, is well known. I took it for granted, therefore, that the earth still held them; and…
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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…
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The Murders In The Rue Morgue - (2)
“Of Madame L’Espanaye no traces were here seen; but an unusual quantity of soot being observed in the fire-place, a search was made in the…
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The Murders In The Rue Morgue - (3)
I stared at the speaker in mute astonishment. “I am now awaiting,” continued he, looking toward the door of our apartment—“I am now awaitin…
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The Murders In The Rue Morgue - (4)
“If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combi…
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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…
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The Mystery Of Marie Roget - (2)
By the following fact, some color was given to the suspicion thus thrown upon Beauvais. A visitor at his office, a few days prior to the gi…
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The Mystery Of Marie Roget - (3)
“‘But,’ says L’Etoile, ‘if the body had been kept in its mangled state on shore until Tuesday night, some trace would be found on shore of…
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The Mystery Of Marie Roget - (4)
“You will say, however, that, in the second instance, there was no elopement as imagined. Certainly not—but are we prepared to say that the…
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The Mystery Of Marie Roget - (5)
“And here we must refer to an observation of Le Commerciel; an observation upon which I have already, in some measure, commented. ‘A piece,…
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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…
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The Purloined Letter - (2)
“It is merely,” I said, “an identification of the reasoner’s intellect with that of his opponent.” “It is,” said Dupin; “and, upon inquirin…
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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…
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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…
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Thou Art The Man - (2)
Mr. Pennifeather was, accordingly, arrested upon the spot, and the crowd, after some further search, proceeded homeward, having him in cust…