Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography

by Arthur Hobson Quinn

Book Overview

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801857309
• ISBN13: 9780801857300
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher