The Purloined Letter
by Edgar Allan Poe
Challenges & Opportunities
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The action of "The Purloined Letter" couldn't be simpler, but that doesn't mean Poe is going to take it easy on us. Dupin's dialogue is long-winded from the beginning, and then when he starts waxing poetic about mathematicians and poets, your students will be thinking "What is he talking about?" as their eyes slowly glaze over.
Poe enjoys philosophy immensely, but sometimes—we admit it—he gets a bit carried away.