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About the Author

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Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of indigent actors. At age three, when his parents died, Poe was […]

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Overview

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Poe gained great recognition in the early 1840s for his creation of a type of story that has grown in popularity ever since-the detective story, […]

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Setting

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The story is set in the city of Paris, France, in the mid-nineteenth century. The particularly brutal murders of a woman and her daughter have […]

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Themes and Characters

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The central character, Auguste Dupin, is idiosyncratic, more than a little egocentric, and somewhat of a recluse. He is highly observant and an expert at […]

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Literary Qualities

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Although Poe is credited with the creation of the detective story and the character type known as the amateur sleuth, obviously Auguste Dupin and his […]

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Social Sensitivity

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Poe’s fiction is not concerned with social issues. He viewed true reality as a process of the mind, not a fact of physical existence; consequently, […]

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Ideas and Topics for Papers

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VII TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Look carefully at the opening pages of the story and discuss the nature of the “analytical” faculty. 2. Discuss the […]

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Related Titles and Adaptations

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William Legrand, the central character in “The Gold Bug,” shares some characteristics with Poe’s famous amateur sleuth, Auguste Dupin. Like Dupin, he alternates between gloomy […]