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About Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short
story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist
and one of the leaders of the American Romant-
ic Movement. Best known for his tales of the
macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early
American practitioners of the short story and
a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fic
tion. He is also credited with contributing to the
emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the
age of 40. The cause of his death is undeter-
mined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs,
cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be
mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previ-
ous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain con-
gestion and other agents.
What song the Syrens sang, or what
name Achilles assumed when he hid
himself among women, although
puzzling questions, are not beyond all
conjecture.
—Sir Thomas Browne.
The mental features discoursed of as the ana-
lytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible
of analysis. We appreciate them only in their ef-
fects. We know of them, among other things,
that they are always to their possessor, when in-
ordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest
enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his
physical ability, delighting in such exercises as
call his muscles into action, so glories the ana-
lyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
He derives pleasure from even the most trivial
occupations bringing his talent into play. He
is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hiero-
glyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a
degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary
apprehension præternatural. His results,
brought about by the very soul and essence
of method, have, in truth, the whole air of
intuition.
The faculty of re-solution is possibly
much invigorated by mathematical study,
and especially by that highest branch of it
which, unjustly, and merely on account of
its retrograde operations, has been called,
as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to cal-
culate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-
player, for example, does the one without
effort at the other. It follows that the game
of chess, in its effects upon mental charac-
ter, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now
writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a
somewhat peculiar narrative by observa-
tions very much at random; I will, there-
fore, take occasion to assert that the higher
powers of the reflective intellect are more
decidedly and more usefully tasked by the
unostentatious game of draughts than by
a the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this
latter, where the pieces have different and
bizarre motions, with various and variable
values, what is only complex is mistaken
(a not unusual error) for what is profound.
The attention is here called powerfully into
play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight
is committed resulting in injury or defeat.
The possible moves being not only mani-
fold but involute, the chances of such over-
sights are multiplied; and in nine cases out
of ten it is the more concentrative rather
than the more acute player who conquers.
In draughts, on the contrary, where the
moves are unique and have but little vari-
ation, the probabilities of inadvertence are
diminished, and the mere attention being
left comparatively unemployed, what ad-
vantages are obtained by either party are
obtained by superior acumen. To be less
abstract, let us suppose a game of draughts
where the pieces are reduced to four kings,
and where, of course, no oversight is to be
expected. It is obvious that here the vic-
tory can be decided (the players being at all
equal) only by some recherché movement,
the result of some strong exertion of the intellect
The Murders in the Rue Morgue By Edgar Allan Poe edition by Edgar Allan Poe SUNIL JENA Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Edgar Allan Poe is a mainstay of American literature studies, particularly for high school and college survey courses, but it is three of his seventy-two short stories that retain broader interest and are variously credited with inventing detective fiction and influencing the development of 19th century criminology. The three stories featuring Poe's Parisian detective Auguste Dupin, produced 1841 - 1844, are conveniently collected in this edition that comes with some bonus features not easily found elsewhere as well as suggested questions for book clubs.The three stories are "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Murder of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter." For someone who burned through the Poe canon a few decades ago, the return to reading him in this collection was a fresh pleasure. He really does lay out the principles and conventions of detective fiction that have been well honored into the 21st century, not only on the page but now the screen as well. Recent nonfiction books, "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," about the case that inspired "Marie Roget," and "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" cite Poe's founding contributions to fiction, criminology and the rise of popular "detective fever." Editor Matthew Pearl, author of the novel "The Poe Shadow," offers a so-so critical introduction but outdoes himself in digging up three precursors that may have been among Poe's own reading. The first is a chapter from Voltaire's "Zadig," featuring a character's observant powers that solve a crime, but this being Voltaire, all that virtue gets him in trouble. The second is an excerpt from the memoir of Eugene-Francois Vidocq, who was something of a French domestic spy. The last is a selection from William Leggett's 1829 "Tales and Sketches," a tale of justice vs. truth on the American frontier . Leggett is visible at best these days as a footnote and only his political writings remain available in print, so kudos to Pearl for finding this.
None of these precursors took the notions of problem solving to the philosophical and psychological depths Poe did. He really does earn the mantle of genre patriarch. In the parade of fictional detectives who follow, from Sherlock Holmes to Gil Grissom, you can see the Poe in these stories shining through.
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Edgar Allan Poe is a mainstay of American literature studies, particularly for high school and college survey courses, but it is three of his seventy-two short stories that retain broader interest and are variously credited with inventing detective fiction and influencing the development of 19th century criminology. The three stories featuring Poe's Parisian detective Auguste Dupin, produced 1841 - 1844, are conveniently collected in this edition that comes with some bonus features not easily found elsewhere as well as suggested questions for book clubs.
The three stories are "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Murder of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter." For someone who burned through the Poe canon a few decades ago, the return to reading him in this collection was a fresh pleasure. He really does lay out the principles and conventions of detective fiction that have been well honored into the 21st century, not only on the page but now the screen as well. Recent nonfiction books, "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," about the case that inspired "Marie Roget," and "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" cite Poe's founding contributions to fiction, criminology and the rise of popular "detective fever." Editor Matthew Pearl, author of the novel "The Poe Shadow," offers a so-so critical introduction but outdoes himself in digging up three precursors that may have been among Poe's own reading. The first is a chapter from Voltaire's "Zadig," featuring a character's observant powers that solve a crime, but this being Voltaire, all that virtue gets him in trouble. The second is an excerpt from the memoir of Eugene-Francois Vidocq, who was something of a French domestic spy. The last is a selection from William Leggett's 1829 "Tales and Sketches," a tale of justice vs. truth on the American frontier . Leggett is visible at best these days as a footnote and only his political writings remain available in print, so kudos to Pearl for finding this.
None of these precursors took the notions of problem solving to the philosophical and psychological depths Poe did. He really does earn the mantle of genre patriarch. In the parade of fictional detectives who follow, from Sherlock Holmes to Gil Grissom, you can see the Poe in these stories shining through.
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