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This story is made up of philosophical discourse between two entities focusing on religion and science. I believe that Edgar Allan Poe wrote these kinds of stories of a way of documenting his thoughts. The conversation seems to be… read more
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If you enjoy reading about conjecture from over a hundred and fifty years ago then you might enjoy this story, but I didn't. The story focuses on a chess-playing device from the time aptly named "The Turk". It was quite the enigma as it… read more
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This story, written by Edgar Allan Poe, focuses on a superb and supernal specimen of a human being named Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith that the narrator must know more about, but each time he is about to get some answers,… read more
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The Business Man is a humorous story written by Edgar Allan Poe about an ambitious and highly opinionated young man that can't seem to hold a decent job. Each job that he leaves he seems to find another that has even less dignity.… read more
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This story was another pleasant surprise written by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator is a gentleman that happens to live a thousand years in the future. He humorously describes events of the past, often associating people and countries with… read more
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if something figurative became literal? Figurative expressions such as "I would lose my head" or "I'd give an arm and a leg". Well in this interesting tale, the narrator literally loses his… read more
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Quite odd indeed. This story focuses on a man that becomes enraged when he reads an article he believes is a farce due to the oddities that occurred. He is then visited by the Angle of the Odd, an entity made out of a cask and some wine… read more
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This story wasn't very interesting to me. It is about a man named Touch-and-go Bullet-head that moves into a town called Alexander-theGreat-o-nopolis in order to start a newspaper. He quickly finds that there is already a newspaper in… read more
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Diddling describes the many ways in which a diddler operated at the time of Poe's life. Poe describes the necessary ingredients of being a diddler as minuteness, interest, perseverance, ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, originality,… read more
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This short story focuses on one Thingum Bob, a son of a brilliant and successful businessman. One day after reading an ingenious poem Thingum decides that he wants to become an editor and a poet. Thingum is portrayed as a spoiled brat.… read more