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Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography Paperback - 1997
by Arthur Hobson Quinn
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Renowned creator of the detective story and master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. Unlike previous biographers who often confused Poe's stories with his life, Arthur Hobson Quinn sticks meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research of family archives still available when the book was published in 1941, Quinn extracts the life from the legend. 48 illustrations.
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- Title Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
- Author Arthur Hobson Quinn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 864
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Date 1997-11-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0801857309.G
- ISBN 9780801857300 / 0801857309
- Weight 2.55 lbs (1.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 2.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 5.33 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 19th century - Biography, Poe, Edgar Allan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97018240
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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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 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, guesswork, 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 early biographies.