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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “xxxx” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “The Atlantis, a Southern World — or a wonderful Continent discovered, by Peter Prospero, L.L.D.; M.A., P.S.” — June-September 1839 — Text 02 “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part I]” — June 1839 “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part II]” — July 1839 “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part III]” — August 1839 “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part IV]” — September 1839 Reprints: None Associated Material and Special versions: None

This serialized satirical fantasy was attributed by Arthur Hobson Quinn as possibly being by Poe. Quinn's statement is that "the evidence for Poe's authorship is largely internal" (see A. H. Quinn, pp. 757-761). Thomas Ollive Mabbott, however, felt that the author was more likely to be Nathan Covington Brooks, who was one of the editors of the American Museum (see Heartman & Canny, p. 145).

Bibliography: Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York: D. Appleton, Co.), 1941.

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