{"product_id":"the-paris-mysteries-deluxe-edition-isbn-9781782275633","title":"The Paris Mysteries, Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003e3 Edgar Allan Poe stories starring iconic detective \u003cb\u003eAuguste Dupin\u003cb\u003e—now presented in one collectable volume perfect for mystery lovers!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A root from which a whole literature has developed . . . Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?” —Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail—3 mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris and baffled the city’s police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates—but can he find the solution where so many others before him have failed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncluded:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”\u003cbr\u003e • “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”\u003cbr\u003e • “The Purloined Letter”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These 3 stories from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe are some of the most influential ever written, widely praised and credited with inventing the detective genre. Featuring stunning gold foiling, this hardcover deluxe edition is the perfect gift for Poe and mystery fans!\"A perfect winter evening read... 5\/5 stars.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Books Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?\" \u003cb\u003e-- Arthur Conan Doyle \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He wasn't just a mystery\/suspense writer. He was the first.\"\u003cb\u003e -- Stephen King \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a strange, though enormously talented writer, that Edgar Poe!\" \u003cb\u003e-- Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/b\u003eEach   [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has   developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of   life into it?' --Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003e He wasn't just a mystery\/suspense writer. He was the first. --Stephen   King\u003cbr\u003e What a strange, though enormously talented writer, that Edgar Poe. --   Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e Poe was the first to write the detective story as we know it today... Like   printing, the detective story has been improved upon only in a mechanical way   since it was first invented; as artistic products, Gutenberg's Bible and   Poe's \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" have never been surpassed.   --Philip Van Doren SternEdgar  Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American writer, best known for his gothic,  darkly romantic stories and poems. He is also credited with writing the  first ever detective story: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. Along with  the other tales included in this edition, it has inspired generations of  crime writers and spawned countless detective descendants of Auguste  Dupin, including the great Sherlock Holmes.The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which \u003ci\u003edisentangles. \u003c\/i\u003eHe derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of \u003ci\u003eacumen \u003c\/i\u003ewhich appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition. \u003cbr\u003e The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, \u003cbr\u003e as if \u003ci\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and \u003ci\u003ebizarre \u003c\/i\u003emotions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The \u003ci\u003eattention \u003c\/i\u003eis here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are \u003ci\u003eunique \u003c\/i\u003eand have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior \u003ci\u003eacumen\u003c\/i\u003e. To be less abstract—Let us suppose a game of \u003cbr\u003e draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected. It is obvious that here the victory can be decided (the players being at all equal) only by some \u003ci\u003erecherché \u003c\/i\u003emovement, the result of some strong exertion of the intellect. Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometime indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.\u003cbr\u003e Whist has long been noted for its influence upon what is termed the calculating power; and men of the highest order of intellect have been known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, while eschewing chess as frivolous. Beyond doubt there is nothing of a similar nature so greatly tasking the faculty of analysis. The best chess-player in Christendom \u003ci\u003emay \u003c\/i\u003ebe little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. When I say proficiency, I mean that perfection in the game which includes a comprehension of \u003ci\u003eall \u003c\/i\u003ethe sources whence legitimate advantage may be derived. These are not only manifold but multiform, and lie frequently among recesses of thought altogether inaccessible to \u003cbr\u003e the ordinary understanding. To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and, so far, the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist; while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the mere mechanism of the game) are sufficiently and generally comprehensible. Thus to have a retentive memory, and to proceed by “the book,” are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing. But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced. He makes, in silence, a host of observations and inferences. So, perhaps, do his companions; and the difference in the extent of the information obtained lies not so much in the validity of the inference as in the quality of the observation. The necessary knowledge is that of \u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003eto observe. Our player confines himself not at all; nor, because the game is the object, does he reject deductions from things external to the game. He examines the countenance of his partner, comparing it carefully with that of each of his opponents. He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. He notes every variation of face as the play progresses, gathering a fund of thought from the differences in the expression of certainty, of surprise, of triumph, or of chagrin. From the manner of gathering up a trick he \u003cbr\u003e judges whether the person taking it can make another in the suit. He recognises what is played through feint, by the air with which it is thrown upon the table. A casual or inadvertent word; the accidental dropping or turning of a card, with the accompanying anxiety or carelessness in regard to its concealment; the counting of the tricks, with the order of their arrangement; embarrassment, hesitation, eagerness or trepidation—all afford, to his apparently intuitive perception, indications of the true state of affairs. The first two or three rounds having been played, he is in full possession of the contents of each hand, and thenceforward puts down his cards with as absolute a precision of purpose as if the rest of the party had turned outward the faces of their own.\u003cbr\u003e The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. The constructive or combining power, by which ingenuity is usually manifested, and to which the phrenologists (I believe erroneously) have assigned a separate organ, supposing it a primitive faculty, has been so frequently seen in those whose intellect bordered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between\u003cbr\u003e the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the \u003ci\u003etruly \u003c\/i\u003eimaginative never otherwise than analytic. \u003cbr\u003e The narrative which follows will appear to the reader somewhat in the light of a commentary upon the propositions just advanced.","brand":"Pushkin Vertigo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304774979813,"sku":"NP9781782275633","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782275633.jpg?v=1767740873","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-paris-mysteries-deluxe-edition-isbn-9781782275633","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}