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Main Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, c1984.
Series:The Library of America
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Item Description:"Patrick Quinn wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Prelim. p.
Physical Description:1408 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0940450186 :
Author Notes:Read throughout the world, translated by Baudelaire, and admired by writers as different as Dostoevsky and H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience. But his enormous popularity and his continuing influence on literature depend less on legend or vision than on his stylistic accomplishments as a writer.

Patrick Quinn (1918-1999), the editor of this volume, was Professor of English at Wellesley College and the author of The French Face of Edgar Allan Poe , among other works.

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