Edgar Allan Poe's eerie masterpieces of short fiction, now in a beautiful new hardcover edition.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an
early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a
semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay
longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he
started his literary career with the anonymous publication
ofTamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic.
His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting
himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being
discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in
Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying
his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the
marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and
Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after
Virginia.
Poe struggled with poverty, bereavement, illness, alcoholism and a
hallucinatory imagination. His extraordinary sequence of short
stories has profoundly affected western culture since first
publication in the 1840s.
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