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        <title><![CDATA[did u ever find the answer cause i need it to..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[did u ever find the answer cause i need it to..]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:54:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would the plot chart for "the Purloined Letter" be?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would the plot chart for "the Purloined Letter" be?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:07:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you think of the obvious theories concerning the elusiveness of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do you think of the obvious theories concerning the elusiveness of the obvious advanced by Dupin?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:22:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main problem is one of blackmail; a letter containing very damaging...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main problem is one of blackmail; a letter containing very damaging personal information about the Royal family has been stolen, and the holder is demanding money - otherwise the contents thereof will be publicly disclosed. It is Auguste Dupin's challege to locate the whereabouts of the letter and "steal it back" in time:

The reason for the letter's theft is political in nature. The Minister, a political opponent of the Queen's, steals...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:01:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the conflict in The Purloined Letter?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the conflict in The Purloined Letter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:54:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator of Poe's story asks the same question:“But what purpose...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator of Poe's story asks the same question:“But what purpose had you,” I asked, “in replacing the letter by a facsimile? Would it not have been better, at the first visit, to have seized it openly, and departed?”Dupin's answer is that if he had done as the narrator suggests and openly takes the letter, he would have put himself in danger. By leaving a copy of the letter, he has an advantage over the suspect, Minister D---. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:47:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the short story &quot;The Purloined Letter&quot; what personal battle...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the short story &quot;The Purloined Letter&quot; what personal battle with a widely held belief is Poe possibly fighting in the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:20:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;The Purloined Letter,&quot; why does Dupin replace the real...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;The Purloined Letter,&quot; why does Dupin replace the real letter with a facsimile?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:53:27 PST</pubDate>
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