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The Purloined Letter
- mystery and detective stories
- monograms
- children's fiction
- c. auguste dupin (fictitious character)
- american literature
- mystery & detective
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The Purloined Letter was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1844. The Purloined Letter is the third of the three stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget. These stories are considered important forerunners of the modern detective story. The method Poe's detective, Dupin, uses to solve the crime was quite innovative. He tried to identify with the criminal and to "think like he would." In May of 1844 Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered it "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination
Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
From WikiquoteA dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride — A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!
The happiest day — the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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