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Poe, Edgar Allan - Gold-Bug and Other Tales, The - [scary horror]
Building a Comprehensive SF&F Collection Lou Anders 2009
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He wrote it for the same reason that he wrote tales like “The Gold-Bug”: to stave off starvation.
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“The Gold-Bug” is a tangle of puns, many of them, as the literary scholar Marc Shell has pointed out, having to do with currency.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: More on Poe's head games 2009
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“The Gold-Bug” is a tangle of puns, many of them, as the literary scholar Marc Shell has pointed out, having to do with currency.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Gaming and narrative 2009
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For a long while, Poe lived on bread and molasses; weeks before “The Gold-Bug” was published, he was begging near-strangers on the street for fifty cents to buy something to eat.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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For a long while, Poe lived on bread and molasses; weeks before “The Gold-Bug” was published, he was begging near-strangers on the street for fifty cents to buy something to eat.
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He wrote it for the same reason that he wrote tales like “The Gold-Bug”: to stave off starvation.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Poe, in his story of the Gold-Bug, falls into one of his characteristic errors of conscience.
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As a relief from the serious work of the volume there are included an extract from _Pickwick Papers_; that fascinating story, _The Gold-Bug_; and the delightful essay, _Modestine_, an extract from _Travels with a Donkey_, by Stevenson.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester
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"The Gold-Bug," built around the solution of a cryptogram, but also introducing an element of adventure.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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