The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Viking Portable Library S.) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140150129 ISBN 13: 9780140150124

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Poe Edgar Allan

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Reseña del editor

This text includes all of Poe's best-known tales and poems, with representative articles, criticism, letters and opinions.

Biografía del autor

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140150129
• ISBN 13: 9780140150124
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704
• Herausgeber: Stern Philip