Poe - Peter Ackroyd
A Life Cut Short
KORTE INHOUD
Heralded as a genius, the forerunner of modern fantasy and credited with the invention of the psychological drama, science fiction and the detective story, Edgar Allen Poe had a life as dramatic and as tragic as his art.
Poe's life was dominated by dying woman; his mother died of consumption when he was only two, his stepmother when he was twenty, and his wife, Virginia, died at the same ageas his mother. As Ackroyd brilliantly shows, it was these deaths, together with Poe's miserable chidhood, that led to such a dark and dazzling tales as 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'Berenice', although it was the publication of 'The Raven' that the writer finally achieved the recognition of which he dreamed. Success couldn't save him from himself, however, and he was dead by the age of forty, his final days as mysterious as much of his writing.
Poe's life was dominated by dying woman; his mother died of consumption when he was only two, his stepmother when he was twenty, and his wife, Virginia, died at the same ageas his mother. As Ackroyd brilliantly shows, it was these deaths, together with Poe's miserable chidhood, that led to such a dark and dazzling tales as 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'Berenice', although it was the publication of 'The Raven' that the writer finally achieved the recognition of which he dreamed. Success couldn't save him from himself, however, and he was dead by the age of forty, his final days as mysterious as much of his writing.
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