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    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

    J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Poe Studies Association. His books on Poe include Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987), “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and the Abyss of Interpretation (1995), and several edited volumes including A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001), Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001; with Liliane Weissberg), and Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012; with Jerome McGann). His major contribution to American literary studies is Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016), written with the support of fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also published Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (1993), and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of The Life of Black Hawk (2008). He has appeared in many Poe documentary films, including The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe(1994) for the A&E Biography series and Eric Stange’s film for the PBS American Masterpiece series, Edgar A. Poe: Buried Alive (2017).
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Edgar Allan Poe , Arthur Rackham
    9781101907979
    $24.00 US
    Hardcover
    Sep 05, 2017
    Everyman's Library
    6-1/8 x 8-1/8
    Tales of Terror
    Tales of Terror
    Les Martin , Edgar Allan Poe
    9780307758972
    Ebook
    Nov 24, 2010
    Random House Books for Young Readers
    Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe
    Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe , Michael McCurdy
    9780307491657
    Ebook
    Dec 30, 2008
    Knopf Books for Young Readers

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    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rackham
    9781101907979
    $24.00 US
    Hardcover
    Sep 05, 2017
    Everyman's Library
    6-1/8 x 8-1/8
    Tales of Terror
    Tales of Terror
    Les Martin, Edgar Allan Poe
    9780307758972
    $3.99 US
    Ebook
    Nov 24, 2010
    Random House Books for Young Readers
    Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe
    Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe, Michael McCurdy
    9780307491657
    $4.99 US
    Ebook
    Dec 30, 2008
    Knopf Books for Young Readers

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