Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Hardcover, 431 pages

English language

Published November 1983 by Castle.

ISBN:
978-0-89009-564-5
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OCLC Number:
13979099

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Master of the macabre! Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's most gifted writ- ers, whose work has had a worldwide in- fluence on literature, was born in Boston in 1809 to traveling actors both of whom died before he was three. Though taken into the home of John Allan, a wealthy Richmond. illßinia merchant, and well- provided for, Poe belonged only to his art. As poet, short stow writer, journal- ist, and literary critic, Poe was an orig- inal. Hailed in France as the founder of modern poetry, he is equally credited with having originated the detective story and psychological thriller. In America, he shares with Nathaniel Hawthorne credit for transforming the short story from anecdote to art. Poe first published when he was 18, At 22, he married his 13-year-old cousin, But his drinking and gambling kept him from completing college and. later, from holding a job. His health …

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