Edgar Allan Poe : a biography / Milton Meltzer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2003.Description: p. cmISBN:- 0761329102 (lib. bdg.) :
- 818/.309 B 21
- PS2631 .M45 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Unknown | Beverly Middle School | 92 POE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 701744 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Theater in the blood -- A quick and clever boy -- The teenager -- Soldier and poet -- In West Point, and out -- Satire and science fiction -- Editor, novelist, husband -- Hoaxes and horrors -- The first-ever detective story -- A popular lecturer -- New York : the rich and the poor -- "The raven" and fame -- Death of the beloved -- The last years -- Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe.
Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.