Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond

Christopher P. Semtner

ISBN 10: 1609496078 / ISBN 13: 9781609496074

Editore: History Press, 2012

Codice articolo LU-9781609496074

Riassunto:

Acclaimed as one of America's most innovative authors and the inventor of the detective story, Edgar Allan Poe and his works are celebrated around the world. Yet the true story of Poe's time in Richmond, Virginia, is every bit as strange and exciting as his fiction.
Poe spent nearly a third of his life in Richmond. It was here that he matched wits with a chess-playing robot, set the record for swimming against the current in the James River, challenged a rival editor to a duel and first revealed his talent for practical jokes. Join Christopher P. Semtner, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, as he reveals previously unpublished photographs and little-known source material to shed new light on how the mystery, madness and tragedy that Poe encountered during his Richmond years forever shaped his renowned fiction.

Product Description: Book by Christopher P Semtner

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond
Casa editrice: History Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New