Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe.
Mark Twain
The main theme is cryptography and the solving of a treasure map.
The main theme is romance and adventure.
The main theme is warfare and conquest.
The main theme is family and relationships.
Edgar Allan Poe
William Legrand.
John Smith
Captain Kidd
Long Island, New York.
Treasure Island, Florida.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.
Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
A gold-colored bug.
A silver cockroach.
A black beetle.
A red ant.
It is connected to the discovery of Captain Kidd's buried treasure.
It turns into a valuable jewel.
It is a pet of the protagonist.
It leads to the finding of a mythological creature.
By finding it in a bottle at sea.
Through a dream.
By making a rubbing of the gold bug after it accidentally appears on a piece of parchment.
It is buried under a tree.
He uses frequency analysis.
He guesses the solution randomly.
He uses a computer program.
He uses binary code.
The antagonist who hides the treasure.
The captain of the treasure ship.
Jupiter is Legrand's servant who accompanies him on the treasure hunt.
A treasure guardian spirit.
Through climbing mountains and fighting.
Through the treasure hunt and solving of a coded message.
Through a romantic subplot.
Through a war setting.
The story has a humorous take on crime solving.
The story is unrealistic and fantastical.
The story combines realistic descriptions with fictional use of a cipher.
The story is a pure fantasy adventure.
Romance
Science Fiction
It is considered a mystery and adventure story.
Horror
Caesar cipher.
A substitution cipher.
Enigma Machine code.
Polyalphabetic cipher.
It was published anonymously.
It led to Poe's early retirement.
It was popular and won a prize for a writing competition.
It was never published during Poe's lifetime.
The story is unrelated to puzzles.
Poe's interest is evident in the story's focus on solving a cryptogram to find treasure.
It focuses on love letters.
There is no mention of Poe’s interest in puzzles.