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The Gold Bug

by Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

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The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.

Genre
British mysterymysteryadventurefantasycrime
Themes
gothic
Setting
EnglandEton CollegeOxfordRomeUniversity of Oxford
Audience
adult
Length
short · 124 pages
Form
short storiespoetry

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