The Purloined Letter

It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin. In May 1844, Poe wrote that he considered The Purloined Letter "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination."

Illustrated by Frédéric Théodore Lix, 1864?

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btw, first complete 3D imaging of the clitoris wasn't done until 2009, by French researchers Dr. Odile Buisson & Dr. Pierre Foldès

it had been reported on since 1844, but not "proven"

has a good one on this https://t.co/egrnSYvRKD

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Little bit of cheating on my part. There are a handful of paintings based on Hugo's story, but they tend to focus on Esmeralda. So my cartoon was based on this, an illustration from an edition of 1844, engraved by Adele Laisne from Aime de Lemud's original drawing.

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from the Special Collections & Archives team! We hope you're all celebrating in style just like Mr Fezziwig's Ball from Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (6th edition, 1844, 19th C. Coll. 823.83 DIC)

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The conclusion to with perhaps the greatest auk, the extinct Great Auk. Absent from the world since 1844, they were large, flightless, and hunted to oblivion for their fat and feathers.

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Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844, by G.W. Fasel and Charles G. Crehen, 1851

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Shipping off Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland, 1844, John Wilson Carmichael

Dunstanborough Castle is a 14th-century fortification on the coast of Northumberland in northern England. The castle was built by Earl Thomas of Lancaster between 1313 and 1322.

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Gyula Benczúr (28 January 1844, Nyíregyháza - 16 July 1920, Szécsény) was a Hungarian painter and art teacher.

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Published in 1844, J.J. Grandville's "Un Autre Monde" is a proto-Surrealist tour de force!

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" Le Rêve" ou "Le Hamac" 1844, Gustave Courbet "The hammock"

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