Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
- ISBN-10
- 0815410387
- ISBN-13
- 9780815410386
- Series
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Category
- Authors, American
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-01
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Jeffrey Meyers
Description
A biography of the creator of the horror and detective genres in fiction chronicles his life of wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, his fevered imagination, and his paranoiac despair.
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