The "Everything" Guide to Edgar Allan Poe by Shelley Costa Bloomfield

The "Everything" Guide to Edgar Allan Poe by Shelley Costa Bloomfield

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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific American writers of all time. The genius son of itinerant actors who died young and left him an orphan, Poe suffered greatly. Yet tragedy never stopped him from writing. This book helps readers learn the deepest secrets that haunted this tortured writer - and ultimately drove him to an early death.

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The "Everything" Guide to Edgar Allan Poe by Shelley Costa Bloomfield

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific American writers of all time. The genius son of itinerant actors who died young and left him an orphan, Poe suffered greatly. Yet tragedy never stopped him from writing. This book helps readers learn the deepest secrets that haunted this tortured writer - and ultimately drove him to an early death.
Veteran writer and professor Shelly Costa Bloomfield teaches writing and literature at the Cleveland Institute of Art. A noted scholar of suspense and mystery fiction, Dr. Bloomfield has also published several short stories in that genre herself. She earned her doctorate in English at Case Western Reserve University - with a dissertation called The Brief and Crowded Hour; Studies in Narrative Suspense in the Work of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. Dr. Costa lives in Ohio.
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ISBN 13 9781598695274
ISBN 10 1598695274
Title The "Everything" Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Author Shelley Costa Bloomfield
Series Everything
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Adams Media Corporation
Year published 2007-09-01
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.