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Author:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

Title:

Poe : a life cut short / Peter Ackroyd.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 205 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849.
Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and index.

Contents:

The victim -- The orphan -- The schoolboy -- The soldier -- The journalist -- The editor -- The man who never smiled -- The bird -- The scandal -- The women -- The last year.

Summary:

Explores Poe's literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin and his much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol.

Series:

Ackroyd's brief lives
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- Ackroyd's brief lives.

ISBN:

038550800X (alk. paper)
9780385508001 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226213344

LCCN:

2008018244

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