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The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

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Author Biography

Name: Edgar Allan Poe
Birth Date: January 19, 1809
Death Date: October 7, 1849
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, writer

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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
1494 words, approx. 5 pages
Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism...
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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
36304 words, approx. 121 pages
With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with...
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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
36222 words, approx. 120.7 pages
From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Purloined Letter Information
2,397 words, approx. 8 pages
"The Purloined Letter" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories. It is the third of the three stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin; these stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The Case Of The Purloined Letter
12/19/2004: 911 words, approx. 3 pages
WHEN GENERAL Augusto Pinochet, the former president of Chile, was indicted this week in Santiago for his role in state-sponsored murders during the 1970s, grateful relatives of the victims mobbed the Chilean judge who had issued the order. But judging from a recent flare-up...
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French Forum
Helisenne's purloined letters.
09/22/2005: 6,303 words, approx. 21 pages
In Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story, The Purloined Letter, the contents of the mysterious epistle are never revealed; rather, it is the place and the successive replacements of the letter and its facsimile that comprise the narrative. (1) For Poe, the value...
 


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The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

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