1992, ISBN: 9780684193700

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 1st edition, September 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective m… Mehr…

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 1st edition, September 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Critical / Biographical Work. From PW "Meyers ( 'Joseph Conrad' ) focuses on the ways the works of poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) influenced many other great writers, including Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Nabokov and Baudelaire. Hailed in France as the inventor of the modern detective and psychological novel and of symbolist poetry, he is remembered in his own country chiefly for his macabre tales ("The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher") and his poem "The Raven." Meyers documents Poe's short and unhappy life, effectively describing his chaotic childhood (he was raised by a foster father who would later disown him) and his tragic adult life (he struggled to write while suffering from alcoholism, poverty and the death of his young wife Virginia in 1847 from consumption). Meyers's sympathetic and readable treatment highlights Poe's considerable stylistic achievements." Publisher's sheet laid in. Illustrated. 348 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992<

ISBN: 9780684193700

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but underp… Mehr…

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but underpaid author, a temperate man and uncontrollable addict. This book offers a penetrating look at a writer whose life was stranger and more appalling than his most eccentric fiction."Poe has found a biographer fully worthy of his strange and erratic genius and his no less strange and erratic life". Media >, [PU: Scribners]<

ISBN: 9780684193700

Scribner. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library c… Mehr…

Scribner. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Scribner<

ISBN: 9780684193700

Hardcover book. 348 pages. Published by Scribner Book Company Media > Book, [PU: Scribners]