EAN: 9780670919840

THE PENGUIN COMPLETE TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR A...

Edgar Allan Poe (Author)   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.   Will Self (Introducer)   Will Self is the
author of many novels and books of non-fiction  including Great Apes   The Book of Dave   How
the Dead Live   which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002  The Butt  
winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008  Umbrella   which was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012  and Shark . His most recent novel  Phone   was
shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.

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