The Gold-Bug (short story)

The Gold-Bug is a short story by author Edgar Allan Poe. - AsNotedIn

The Gold-Bug (short story)

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Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, SC Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where are some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto.
Sullivan's Island, SC, South Carolina MANY years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters, he left New Orleans for Sullivan's Island, near Charleston.

Y/M/D		Association	Description
1843/06/21	Edgar Allan Poe	Author	Poe wins the $100 grand prize in a Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper's writing contest with the "The Gold-Bug". The Philadelphia newspaper publishes the narrative in two installments on June 21 and June 28.
1843/06/21	Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia)	Publisher	Poe wins the $100 grand prize in a Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper's writing contest with the "The Gold-Bug". The Philadelphia newspaper publishes the narrative in two installments on June 21 and June 28.
1843/07/01	Felix Octavius Carr Darley	Illustrator	E A Poe's "The Gold-Bug" is published in three installments in the Saturday Courier in Philadelphia on June 24, July 1 and July 8, the last two appeared on the front page with illustrations by F O C Darley.

Particulars for The Gold-Bug (short story):
Secure communication	Cryptography	study of secure communications techniques and codes
Narrative Arts	Fiction	prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts	Narrative	an account of connected events
Narrative Arts	Prose	ordinary written language
Art Type	Short Story	short form narrative fiction

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Original Language:	English

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