Legeia

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer.

His early literary works were poetic but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals until, in January 1845, The Raven was published and became an instant classic.

Thereafter followed the works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and macabre.

Poe died at the early age of 40 in 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787377851
Publisher:	Copyright Group
Publication date:	02/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.