Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, selected and with an introduction by William Targ, Title: Selected Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Description: Cleveland, Fine Editions Press, (1952). G. 19 stellar stories selected by Targ. Poe was born in Boston in 1809, his parents poor, itinerant actors. Orphaned at two,. Poe was adopted (thought not legally) by John Allan, a Richmond merchant. He attended school in England from 1815-1820 and later the University of Virginia. In 1827 he entered the U.S. Army and was stationed at Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, which was to be the setting for his story, The Gold-Bug (a masterpiece of analysis and deduction). He obtained an appointment at West Point but was dismissed for gambling and neglect of his studies. In 1836 he married his 13 yr old cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Baltimore. As a magazine editor and publisher, critic, reviewer, poet and storyteller, he led an intenseful active life. There followed financial worry, literary skirmishes with contemporaries (among them Longfellow), heavy drinking, mental depression, and physical hunger. Poe was a genius who was for generations misunderstood and maligned. Rose-colored binding, burgundy spine (wear to ends of spine).
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Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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