The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Lauson Tragedy

The Iron Shroud

The Bell-Tower

The Kathayan Slave

The Story of La Roche

The Vision of Sudden Death

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THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE.

“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.

Sir Thomas Browne.

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately 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 analyst in 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 hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary 

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