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Maelzel's Chess Player
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- Author
- Robert Wilcocks
- First published
- 1994
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Criticism, Literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Literature, Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939, Literature, psychology, Psychology
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre
- essay
- Main subject
- The Turk
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- first line
- Perhaps no exhibition of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel.
- last line
- We do not believe that any reasonable objections can be urged against this solution of the Automaton Chess-Player.
- language of work or name
- American English
- inception
- 1836-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
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