Essay examines connections between reading and theft in Rousseau and Poe's works, suggesting deeper meanings.
This essay discusses scenes of reading and stealing entangled in the first two books of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and in Edgar Allan Poe's short story “The Purloined Letter.”
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