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This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at, , or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at and Or send an email to Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at /jackewilson. The Purloined Letter By Edgar Allan Poe ly that, either. Help support the show at /literature or /shop. Then Jacke reads 'The Purloined Letter,' the third and final (and perhaps best) of the Dupin stories. Dupin, the structure of the Dupin stories, and considers the similarities between Dupin and Sherlock Holmes. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Poe's detective M.

'Poe.was the father of the detective tale,' he said, 'and covered its limits so completely that I fail to see how his followers can find any fresh ground which they can confidently call their own.Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?' 'Edgar Allan Poe,' he wrote, 'invented the detective story in order that he might not go mad.' Arthur Conan Doyle, a man who knew a thing or two about detective stories, was quick to credit his boyhood hero with inspiring Sherlock Holmes and all the mysteries that came after. The confluence of Romantic and realist influences and social issues in the United States of America of the nineteenth century, The Purloined Letter has also. In 1965, the critic Joseph Wood Krutch studied the available evidence and came to a surprising conclusion.

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