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  2. MS. Found in a Bottle - Wikipedia

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    He assisted in getting "MS. Found in a Bottle" reprinted in an annual gift book called The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present in its 1836 issue. [20] Kennedy also urged Poe to collect the stories he submitted to the contest, including "MS. Found in a Bottle", into one edition and contacted publisher Carey & Lea on his behalf. [21]

  3. A Descent into the Maelström - Wikipedia

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    Poe rushed to complete the story in time and later admitted that the conclusion was imperfect. [2] Shortly after Poe's story " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " was translated into French without acknowledgment, French readers sought out other works by Poe, of which "A Descent into the Maelström" was amongst the earliest translated.

  4. Amazon Prime - Wikipedia

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    Amazon Prime electric delivery vans in north London. In 2005, Amazon announced Amazon Prime as a membership service offering free two-day shipping within the contiguous United States on all eligible purchases for an annual fee of $79 (equivalent to $127 in 2024) [4] and discounted one-day shipping rates. [5]

  5. Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Wikipedia

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    The title of this collection was then adopted by Padraic Colum in 1908 in view of the growing reputation of Poe's taste for suspense, especially in the context of what his French critic M. Brunetiere called events "on the margin" of life. [2] The original collection, in keeping with its title, deliberately excluded Poe's poems, comedies and essays.

  6. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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    Such messages have been romanticized in literature, from Edgar Allan Poe's 1833 story "MS. Found in a Bottle" through Nicholas Sparks' 1998 Message in a Bottle. [151] Clint Buffington, subject of the 2019 documentary short film The Tides That Bind / A Message in a Bottle Story, [ 152 ] surmised in an interview with The Guardian that sending a ...

  7. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Wikipedia

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    The story appeared as "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case" in The American Review, December, 1845, Wiley and Putnam, New York.. While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr. A. Sidney Doane that recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was "in a magnetic sleep"; the letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale. [1] "

  8. Maelzel's Chess Player - Wikipedia

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    Poe's essay was originally published in the April 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. [ 4 ] Poe's essay asserts that Maelzel's troupe of automata had made at least one previous visit to Richmond, Virginia , "some years ago", at which time they were exhibited "in the house now occupied by M. Bossieux as a dancing academy".

  9. Price on application - Wikipedia

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    A numeric price for an item may be withheld or simply unavailable for a number of reasons. POA can be used as a placeholder when no price has been decided yet; Prices may fluctuate frequently (e.g. gasoline), leading to a price given in a publication to go quickly out of date.