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 s...
2009 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2009 Uitgever: Vintage 170 paginas Taal: Engels