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Edgar Allan Poe His Life and Legacy

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ISBN-10: 0815410387

ISBN-13: 9780815410386

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Jeffrey Meyers

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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.
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 9/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.62" wide x 8.90" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of such literary greats as D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, & F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
An Inauspicious Birth, 1809-1811
Childhood: John Allan and England, 1812-1825
The University of Virginia, 1826
The Army and West Point, 1827-1831
Baltimore: Maria Clemm and Early Stories, 1831-1834
Richmond: The Southern Literary Messenger and Marriage, 1835-1836
Philadelphia: Burton's Magazine, 1837-1840
Philadelphia: Graham's Magazine, 1841-1843
A Lion in New York, 1844-1845
New York: The Broadway Journal, 1845
Fordham and Literary Quarrels, 1846-1847
Fordham: Eureka and Hopeless Love, 1848
Drink, Delirium and Death, 1849
Reputation
Influence
Notes
Bibliography
Index