The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe Book
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The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe Book

The life, times, and work of a tormented genius

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The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe Book

The life, times, and work of a tormented genius

About this book

The genius and orphan son of itinerant actors, Poe led a tragic life and suffered greatly—as much at his own hands as those of Fate. Yet tragedy never stopped him from writing: poems, short stories, literary journalism, and even creating a new genre, the detective story—a contribution so great that the most prestigious writing award for crime fiction, given annually by the Mystery Writers of America, bears his name.

The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe is a fascinating guide to the tormented genius, with critical insight into:
  • His difficult childhood
  • His 13-year-old bride
  • The truth about his drug use
  • The enduring mystery of his death

Poe led a life as epic as one of his poems. In The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, you’ll learn all the deepest secrets that haunted this tortured writer, influenced his writing, and ultimately drove him to an early death.

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Publisher
Everything
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781598695274
eBook ISBN
9781440538261
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Top Ten on the Poe Parade
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: The Fall of the House of Poe
  11. Chapter 2: The Old Foster Folks at Home
  12. Chapter 3: Squaring Off
  13. Chapter 4: Setting Out
  14. Chapter 5: Finding Family
  15. Chapter 6: On the Runway of Fashionable Ideas
  16. Chapter 7: The Work Begins
  17. Chapter 8: Filling the Pen with Prussic Acid
  18. Chapter 9: The Pen Refilled
  19. Chapter 10: Salons and Busybodies
  20. Chapter 11: The Tell-Tale Heartthrob
  21. Chapter 12: The Final Mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe
  22. Chapter 13: Horrors!
  23. Chapter 14: Tiger by the Tale
  24. Chapter 15: One-Shot Deals and “Rejects”
  25. Chapter 16: Reaching for Beauty—The Great Poems
  26. Chapter 17: Crime After Crime
  27. Chapter 18: Out of Place in the Literary Schoolyard
  28. Chapter 19: Overthrowing the Conqueror Worm
  29. Chapter 20: In Search of Eldorado
  30. A: Serving Up the Shivers
  31. B: Timeline of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life
  32. C: Bibliography
  33. Index

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