The Home Life of Poe
Author: Susan Archer Weiss
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 3732648370
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The Home Life of Poe
Author: Susan Archer Talley Weiss
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMrs. Poe
Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476702918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStruggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-11-25
Total Pages: 872
ISBN-13: 9780801857300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0544261879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2009-01-20
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0385529457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a tremendous impact on European romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism, and continue to influence writers today. In this essential addition to his canon of acclaimed biographies, Peter Ackroyd explores Poe’s literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life. Ackroyd chronicles Poe’s difficult childhood, his bumpy academic and military careers, and his complex relationships with women, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin. He describes Poe’s much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol with sympathy and insight, showing their connections to Poe’s childhood and the trials, as well as the triumphs, of his adult life. Ackroyd’s thoughtful, perceptive examinations of some of Poe’s most famous works shed new light on these classics and on the troubled and brilliant genius who created them.
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: J. W. Ocker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2014-10-06
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 1581576765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
Poe for Your Problems
Author: Catherine Baab-Muguira
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0762499087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen life’s got you down and things aren’t going your way, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe? Discover how to say "nevermore" to your problems in this darkly comedic and refreshing self-help guide. Of all the writers anywhere, Poe would seem to be the least likely person you'd want to turn to for advice. His life was a complete dumpster fire: he had tons of failed relationships; not many people liked him; he was a drunk; he was always broke; he often went hungry; even his own death was somewhat of a mystery. However, that's also precisely the point. Somehow, even when Poe failed, he also persevered. Drawing deeply on his works and life, Catherine Baab-Muguira takes the familiar image of Poe in a new and surprising direction in this darkly inspiring self-help book. Despite what you might think, Edgar Allan Poe somehow is the perfect person to teach you to say "Nevermore, problems!" and show you how to use all the terrible situations, tough breaks, bad luck, and even your darkest emotions in novel and creative ways to make a name for yourself and carve out your own unique, notorious place in the world. An inspirational tale for black sheep everywhere, Poe for Your Problems will teach you how to overcome life’s biggest challenges and succeed at work, love, and art—despite the odds and no matter your flaws.
The Poe Log
Author: Dwight Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1995-09
Total Pages: 919
ISBN-13: 9780783814018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor a century and a half Edgar Allan Poe has remained one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in American literature. No other author has been subject to so much misconception; the "real Poe" has been all too dimly perceived, obscured by rumors and innuendoes about his alcoholism, ill-fated love affairs, and poverty. The Poe Log is the first complete and reliable chronicle of his tragic life and brilliant literary career. Extracting facts and clues from a fascinating array of documents, reminiscences, newspaper reports, legal records, and letters to, from, or about Poe, Messrs. Thomas and Jackson have created a vibrant reconstruction of Poe's personal and professional life. The resulting text is remarkable for both its detail and its clarity. The broad outlines of Poe biography were sketched over a century ago; The Poe Log provides the fine strokes and details that complete the unfinished picture, endowing it with depth, verisimilitude, and meaning.
The Brief Career of Eliza Poe
Author: Geddeth Smith
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780838633175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the actress Eliza Poe--mother of Edgar Allen Poe--died at age 24 in Richmond, Virginia, she had played with every important theatrical company in the country. Compared to actors today, her career is truly extraordinary. She played nearly 300 parts--in plays by Shakespeare and Sheridan--a long line of heroines in 18th century sentimental comedies, comic operas, farces, and poetic tragedies whose titles are meaningless now, though they contain brilliant language and canny theatricality, requiring actors of discipline and skill to present successfully. Eliza left no personal documents, but available public documents relating to her professional life tell the vivid story of a gifted young actress serving her apprenticeship in the superior repertory system of late 18th and early 19th century America. Eliza was a young artist who had established a national reputation with her co-workers and the public, just embarking on what would have been her most important work at the time of her tragically early death.
