Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Title Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook
Author Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 872
Release 1997-11-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780801857300

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Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "

The Poe Log

The Poe Log
Title The Poe Log PDF eBook
Author Dwight Thomas
Publisher Macmillan Reference USA
Pages 919
Release 1995-09
Genre Authors, American
ISBN 9780783814018

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For a century and a half Edgar Allan Poe has remained one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in American literature. No other author has been subject to so much misconception; the "real Poe" has been all too dimly perceived, obscured by rumors and innuendoes about his alcoholism, ill-fated love affairs, and poverty. The Poe Log is the first complete and reliable chronicle of his tragic life and brilliant literary career. Extracting facts and clues from a fascinating array of documents, reminiscences, newspaper reports, legal records, and letters to, from, or about Poe, Messrs. Thomas and Jackson have created a vibrant reconstruction of Poe's personal and professional life. The resulting text is remarkable for both its detail and its clarity. The broad outlines of Poe biography were sketched over a century ago; The Poe Log provides the fine strokes and details that complete the unfinished picture, endowing it with depth, verisimilitude, and meaning.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Title Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 377
Release 2000
Genre Authors, American
ISBN 0815410387

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This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but underpaid author, a temperate man and uncontrollable addict.

Mrs. Poe

Mrs. Poe
Title Mrs. Poe PDF eBook
Author Lynn Cullen
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 336
Release 2013-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1476702918

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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Title Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook
Author Paul Collins
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 145
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0544261879

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A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Israfel

Israfel
Title Israfel PDF eBook
Author Hervey Allen
Publisher
Pages 860
Release 1949
Genre Authors, American
ISBN

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Poe

Poe
Title Poe PDF eBook
Author Peter Ackroyd
Publisher Nan A. Talese
Pages 226
Release 2009-01-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0385529457

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Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a tremendous impact on European romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism, and continue to influence writers today. In this essential addition to his canon of acclaimed biographies, Peter Ackroyd explores Poe’s literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life. Ackroyd chronicles Poe’s difficult childhood, his bumpy academic and military careers, and his complex relationships with women, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin. He describes Poe’s much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol with sympathy and insight, showing their connections to Poe’s childhood and the trials, as well as the triumphs, of his adult life. Ackroyd’s thoughtful, perceptive examinations of some of Poe’s most famous works shed new light on these classics and on the troubled and brilliant genius who created them.