Books Details
Author : Edgar Allan Poe Pages : 724 pages Publisher : Canterbury Classics Language :
eng ISBN-10 : 1607103141 ISBN-13 : 9781607103141
Books Descriptions
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston,
Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was
taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as
Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally
adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval
shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune.In 1836 he
married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry,
lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional
genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication
of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his
efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave
him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation
