E.A. Po
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- Author: Ackroyd Peter
- Publisher: Clio
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- Condition: New book
- Code: 43704
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E.A. Po
Ackroyd Peter
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Peter Ackroyd: E.A. Po
A Life from One Reading
Edgar Allan Poe, the famous American writer, served as a soldier in his youth, and began his literary career with verses inspired by Byron. He soon turned to prose, choosing as his genre melodrama with elements of horror, the first to achieve success was The Fall of the House of Asher. Becoming the editor-in-chief of the Messenger magazine, he strengthened his influence on the literary scene. The biography written by Peter Ackroyd begins during the last six days of Poe's life. No one knows what happened from the time his friends escorted him to the steamer in Baltimore until his death six days later in a local coffee house. The brilliance of genius and the reputation of a visionary writer mingled with the depths of poverty, alcoholism and the loss of loved ones caused by tuberculosis.
With his literary work, Edgar Allan Poe represents the forerunner of modern fantasy, psychological drama and detective story. The poet Tennyson said of him that he "represented the most original mind in America." Peter Ackroyd's biography emphasizes Poe's almost tragic childhood, with a traveling actress mother who died early, arguing that the ill-fated writer found his family in literature, not so much of his time as of that which was yet to be written in the twentieth century, constantly revisiting the work of a writer who was not given the recognition he deserved by his contemporaries.
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- Author: Ackroyd Peter
- Publisher: Clio
- Year of publication:2015
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:192
- Dimensions:13x19 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Hardcover with dust jacket
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