The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2006
Summary
Together with a general introduction, bibliography and a select chronology of post-Newtonian science in the century preceding ‘Eureka’, each of the tales in this edition is given an individual critique and extensive notes.
One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140431063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140431063 |
| Author: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 339g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.
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