TY - BOOK AU - Poe,Edgar Allan AU - Blot,R. AU - Dreyfus,Rita AU - Rochegrosse,Georges AU - Baudelaire,Charles TI - Le scarabée d'or AV - PS PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Treasure troves -- Fiction KW - Mystery and detective stories N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Scarab%C3%A9e_d%27or; Release date is 2022-01-03; Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.); Originally published; France: F. Ferroud, 1926 N2 - "Le scarabée d'or" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story published in 1843. The plot follows William Legrand, who discovers an unusual gold-colored bug on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. When his servant fears he's going insane, a friend visits to help. Legrand draws them into an adventure involving a mysterious cipher that promises buried treasure. The story incorporates cryptography and secret codes, which fascinated nineteenth-century readers. It became Poe's most popular work during his lifetime, winning a writing contest and captivating audiences with its puzzle-solving intrigue. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1526005v UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67094 ER -