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Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins (Hardback, 2014)

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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 torious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but t 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.

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Publisher
New Harvest
ISBN-10
0544261879
ISBN-13
9780544261877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220783799

Product Key Features

Author
Paul Collins
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Literary

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Series Title
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Date of Publication
26/08/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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