Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Hobson Quinn

Original title: Edgar Allan Poe, a critical biography

first published 1941 Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders in 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 "A Descent into...

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Edgar Allan Poe paperback · 1998 · Johns Hopkins University Press · 804 pages
Edgar Allan Poe edition · 1997 · Johns Hopkins University Press · 9781421404912
Edgar Allan Poe edition · 1969 · Cooper Square · 804 pages

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