Collected works of edgar allan poe

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Sinopse

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.

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Autor: Edgar Allan Poe

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EDGAR ALLAN POE

Edgar Allan Poe nasceu em 19 de janeiro de 1809 em Boston, Massachusetts. Ficou órfão aos dois anos de idade e foi enviado à Escócia e à Inglaterra para fazer seus estudos. Na Universidade da Virgínia, se tornou alcoólatra e grande adepto do jogo. Publicou seu primeiro livro de poesias em 1827. Seus poemas são pouco numerosos, mas compreendem versos de primeira classe, especialmente a admirável composição O Corvo, que tanto em prosa como em verso tem sido vertida para várias línguas. Poe também é autor do romance O relato de Arthur Gordon Pym (que inspiraria Melville em seu clássico Moby Dick) e de contos antológicos, entre eles, Assassinatos na rua Morgue e Histórias extraordinárias. Suas narrativas de terror, de mistério e policiais são marcos na história da literatura, tendo influenciado grandes autores como Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Jorge Luis Borges etc. Um espírito desequilibrado e uma alma atribulada fizeram Poe levar sempre uma vida de miséria e de desespero, mas senhor, ao mesmo tempo, da maior figura do romantismo americano e o mais universalmente conhecido dos seus escritores. Sua própria vida foi um desses romances vividos que fornecem alta matéria para os romancistas. Devido aos excessos alcoólicos, Poe morreu em 7 de outubro de 1849 em Baltimore.