Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
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Condizione: Bueno. : Esta edición de Wordsworth presenta una extensa colección de los cuentos y poemas de Edgar Allan Poe, maestro del misterio y lo macabro, considerado el inventor de la ficción detectivesca. Incluye obras como 'Los crímenes de la calle Morgue' y 'El cuervo'. Poe, uno de los escritores más originales de la literatura estadounidense, influyó en la literatura moderna y en autores como Dostoievski, Conan Doyle y Jules Verne. EAN: 9781840220520 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Autor: Edgar Allan Poe Editorial: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 800 Formato: tapa blanda. Codice articolo Happ-2025-01-20-74401fd6
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Tapa Blanda. Condizione: Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. Poesia. Libro. Codice articolo 102080
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