The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Portable Library)

Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 10: 0140150129 / ISBN 13: 9780140150124

Verlag: Penguin Books, 1977

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0140150129I4N00

Inhaltsangabe:

Presents selected examples of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and letters by the nineteenth-century American writer

Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Portable ...
Verlag: Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket