Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

Poe: A Life Cut Short

Ackroyd's Brief Lives #4

Peter Ackroyd

205 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the Literary Messenger he...

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