The SphinxEdgar Allan Poe wrote the short story entitled The Sphinx in 1850. It was written based on an actual cholera outbreak which hit New York during the early 1830s.
During the cholera epidemic that occurred in New York City presumably during the summer of 1832, the narrator decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of the city for two weeks.
The story begins with the protagonist explaining that he been staying with a relative in upstate New York while the city was in the throes of a cholera epidemic.
The SphinxEdgar Allan Poe wrote the short story entitled The Sphinx in 1850. It was written based on an actual cholera outbreak which hit New York during the early 1830s.
During the cholera epidemic that occurred in New York City presumably during the summer of 1832, the narrator decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of the city for two weeks.
The story begins with the protagonist explaining that he been staying with a relative in upstate New York while the city was in the throes of a cholera epidemic.
