Edgar Allan Poe by Paul Collins

Edgar Allan Poe by Paul Collins

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling “The Tell-Tale Heart” to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”—the first modern detective story—to the iconic poem “The Raven.” Poe’s life was one of unremitting hardship. His father abandoned the family, and his mother died when he was three. Poe was thrown out of West Point, and married his beloved thirteen-year-old cousin, who died of tuberculosis at twenty-four. He was so poor that he burned furniture to stay warm. He was a scourge to other poets, but more so to himself. In the hands of Paul Collins, one of our liveliest historians, this mysteriously conflicted figure emerges as a genius both driven and undone by his artistic ambitions. Collins illuminates Poe’s huge successes and greatest flop (a 143-page prose poem titled Eureka), and even tracks down what may be Poe’s first published fiction, long hidden under an enigmatic byline. Clear-eyed and sympathetic, Edgar Allan Poe is a spellbinding story about the man once hailed as “the Shakespeare of America.”

“The clean, crisp narrative presents the puzzling Poe as a deeply troubled and toweringly talented artist” —Kirkus Reviews “An elegantly nuanced portrait of an intensely complex man.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books

Paul Collins has written seven books and has been translated into eleven languages; his most recent is Duel with the Devil.

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Titel	Edgar Allan Poe
Autor	Paul Collins
Serie	Icons
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Amazon Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-01-15
Seitenanzahl	144
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