Edgar Allan Poe S Charleston

Author : Christopher Byrd Downey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439669150

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Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey Pdf

An in-depth history of Poe’s time spent in the South Carolina port city where he secretly enlisted in the United States Army. Edgar Allan Poe arrived in Charleston in November 1827 chased by storms, both literal and figurative. Some of the author’s previous indiscretions caused him to enlist in the U.S. Army six months earlier under the pseudonym Edgar A. Perry. The more than one year that Poe spent stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island has been shrouded in mystery for nearly two centuries because Poe deliberately tried to hide his stint in the army. But despite Poe’s deceptions, the influences and impressions of the Lowcountry permeated his life and writing, providing the setting for Poe’s most popular and widely read short story during his lifetime, “The Gold-Bug,” and perhaps providing the inspiration for the real Annabel Lee. Author Christopher Byrd Downey details the hidden history of Poe in Charleston.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615886663

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Kingdom by the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

In 1827 Pvt. Edgar Perry arrived at Ft. Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston and served for 14 months. The haunted, turbulent atmosphere of the South Carolina Lowcountry was a perfect environment to feed Pvt. Perry's poetic despair and dark sensitivity. Twenty years later he was internationally known as Edgar Allan Poe. His tortured literary genius is perfectly reflected in these four Charleston-based tales from the Master of Melancholy.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786561330527

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The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores human mysteries and obsessions. The narrative follows a man who, during a sea voyage, becomes intrigued by a strange oblong box brought on board by a friend, triggering a series of enigmatic events and surprising revelations.

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190641870

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allen Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples Pdf

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786561332019

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.

Author : Scott Peeples
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571133577

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The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples Pdf

Scott Peeples here examines the many controversies surrounding the work and life of Poe, shedding light on such issues as the relevance of literary criticism to teaching, the role of biography in literary study, and the importance of integrating various interpretations into one's own reading of literature.

Author : Scott Peeples
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691182407

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The Man of the Crowd by Scott Peeples Pdf

"We tend to think of Edgar Allan Poe as a loner, living in a world of his own imagination and detached from his physical environment. Poe might seem like a Nowhere Man, but of course he was always somewhere - just not at the same address for very long. The Man of the Crowd chronicles Poe's rootless life, focusing on the American cities where he lived the longest: Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. The Poe who emerges in The Man of the Crowd is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by his physical environments - mostly urban and almost entirely American. His career was tied closely to the rise of American magazines, so he lived in the cities that produced them and wrote not just stories and poems but journalism and editorials with an urban magazine-reading public in mind. For years he witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond. In Philadelphia, he saw an orderly, expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. And at a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, Poe tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan and, later, in what is now the Bronx. Though Poe rarely provided "local color" in his fiction, his urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experience living among soldiers, slaves, and immigrants"--

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230298339

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... THE GOLD-BUG [Prize Story of the Philadelphia Dollar Newapaver, June 21-28, 1843.] What ho! what ho! this fellow Is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. --All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with 3 Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters, he left New Orleans, the city of his forefathers, and took up his residence at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. This island is a very singular one. It cor> sists of little else than the sea sand, and is about three miles long. Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile. It is separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime, a favorite resort of the marsh-hen. The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. No trees of any magnitude are to be seen. Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where are some miser 5 able frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the sea-coast, is covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle so much prized by the horticulturists of England. The shrub here often attains the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and forms an almost impenetrable coppice, burthening the air with its fragrance. In the inmost recesses of this coppice, not tar from the eastern or more remote end of the island, Legrand had built himself a small hut, which he occupied when I first, ..

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770483491

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Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works, with their bizarrely motivated characters and mysterious settings, did not seem to be a part of the literature of early nineteenth-century America. Critics realize now, though, that Poe was even more a part of the contemporary American literary scene than many of his more “nationalistic” peers, and that in much of his work Poe was making commentaries on slavery and Southern social attitudes, technology, the urban landscape, political economy, and other subjects. This Broadview Edition includes a selection of Poe’s poems, tales, and sketches in such diverse modes of writing as tales of the supernatural and psychic conflict, satires and hoaxes, science fiction and detective fiction, and nonfiction essays on literary and social topics. These are supplemented by a selection of contextual documents—newspaper and magazine articles, treatises, and other historical texts—that will help readers understand the social, literary, and intellectual milieus in which Poe wrote.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Balloon-Hoax (報章記者的惡作劇) by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

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Author : Walter Lennig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000016406

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Edgar Allan Poe by Walter Lennig Pdf

Author : Harry Lee Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1602583226

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Evermore by Harry Lee Poe Pdf

Presents a critical analysis of Poe's body of work as a concern with universal themes, exploring the presence of evil, the meaning of suffering, the role of justice, and the search for love and God.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe,A. Bostonian
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557239252

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Tamerlane and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe,A. Bostonian Pdf

Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist. The poems were largely inspired by Lord Byron, including the long title poem "Tamerlane", which depicts a historical conqueror who laments the loss of his first romance. Like much of Poe's future work, the poems in Tamerlane and Other Poems include themes of love, death, and pride.

Author : Dorothea Benton Frank
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101533239

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Shem Creek by Dorothea Benton Frank Pdf

“The strong pull of friendship, the leisurely pace of a tiny, waterfront Southern town, and the steady buildup of romance help buoy Frank’s well-drawn, memorable characters” (Publishers Weekly) in this New York Times bestseller. Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters—one of whom is headed off to college. Between that and the married men, the cold New Jersey winters, her pinched wallet, and her ex-husband who married a beautiful, successful woman ten years younger than she is—let’s just say Linda has seen enough to fill a thousand pages. Now she’s bound for Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, the magical landscape of her ancestors. Welcomed by the help of her advice-dispensing sister and an intriguing ex–investment banker turned restaurant owner, Linda slowly begins to find her way and realize that she, too, is entitled to a second chance....

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1797994662

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.