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9780815410386

Edgar Allan Poe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815410386

  • ISBN10:

    0815410387

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Cooper Square Pub

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Table of Contents

Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
An Inauspicious Birth, 1809-1811
1(7)
Childhood: John Allan and England, 1812-1825
8(13)
The University of Virginia, 1826
21(11)
The Army and West Point, 1827-1831
32(24)
Baltimore: Maria Clemm and Early Stories, 1831-1834
56(14)
Richmond: The Southern Literary Messenger and Marriage, 1835-1836
70(22)
Philadelphia: Burton's Magazine, 1837-1840
92(29)
Philadelphia: Graham's Magazine, 1841-1843
121(29)
A Lion in New York, 1844-1845
150(19)
New York: The Broadway Journal, 1845
169(21)
Fordham and Literary Quarrels, 1846-1847
190(23)
Fordham: Eureka and Hopeless Love, 1848
213(28)
Drink, Delirium and Death, 1849
241(17)
Reputation
258(22)
Influence
280(25)
Notes 305(30)
Bibliography 335(3)
Index 338

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