Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond:: The Raven in the River City

by Christopher P. Semtner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609496078
• ISBN13: 9781609496074
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"