Edgar Allan Poe Collected Stories and Poems - Couverture rigide

Poe, Edgar Allan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904919774 ISBN 13 : 9781904919773

Editeur : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. His parents, both touring actors, died before he was three. He was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and achieved respect as a literary critic. In 1836 he married his thirteen-year-old cousin. It was only with the publication of The Raven and other Poems in 1845 that he achieved national fame as a writer. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in 1849.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904919774
• ISBN 13: 9781904919773
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 374