The purloined letter

48 paĝoj

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 11-a de novembro 1986 de Creative Education, Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-88682-061-9
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4 steloj (2 recenzoj)

The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.

11 eldonoj

Good story, I see a lot of Sherlock here.

4 steloj

This was easier to read then I was expecting given it's age. Thou at times I did lose track of who was speaking. I think I've heard this story before, and if not - it reminded me a lot of how Sherlock works. If I didn't know that Poe wrote this, I would have thought it was a proto-Sherlock Holmes story. I was "forced" in high school to read a couple of Poe's short stories, and I never liked them. I'm sorry to say that experience turned me off reading any thing he wrote. Truly this was an error on my part, while I still find him hard to read, This story wasn't all that hard. I had a pretty good idea of where the letter was (or was going to be) - but perhaps that is because I think I have heard the story before (mistaking it for a …

Good story, I see a lot of Sherlock here.

4 steloj

This was easier to read then I was expecting given it's age. Thou at times I did lose track of who was speaking. I think I've heard this story before, and if not - it reminded me a lot of how Sherlock works. If I didn't know that Poe wrote this, I would have thought it was a proto-Sherlock Holmes story. I was "forced" in high school to read a couple of Poe's short stories, and I never liked them. I'm sorry to say that experience turned me off reading any thing he wrote. Truly this was an error on my part, while I still find him hard to read, This story wasn't all that hard. I had a pretty good idea of where the letter was (or was going to be) - but perhaps that is because I think I have heard the story before (mistaking it for a …

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