A Modern Detective (Penguin Little Black Classics #93)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
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- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241252321
- ISBN10 0241252326
- Type BOOK
- Pages 64
- Published 2016
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureA Modern Detective (Penguin Little Black Classics #93)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
?He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics
Biografía del autor
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.