Selected Short Stories: written between 1833 and 1850

Edgar Allan Poe's gripping short stories present the art and science of counter-intelligence and culture wars. How does the other side think? How does our own side know what is true and what isn't? As Poe explains in 'The Purloined Letter', one must know the assumptions in the minds of the other side to grasp their intellectual framework, understand the obstacles in their mode of thinking, and have greater insight into the enemy's mind better than the enemy themselves do. Poe wrote some of ...