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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-138) 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 Poe's life.
Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.