The Gold-Bug
The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.
More by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poems and Prose
The Black Cat
The Masque of the Red Death
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Cask of Amontillado
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes
The Complete Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
Chappie’s discussion starters
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- Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
- Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
- What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
- If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
- Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?