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Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling,

the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most

versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe

wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented

the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of

science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and

themes had a tremendous impact on European romanticism, symbolism,

and surrealism, and continue to influence writers today.

In this essential addition to his canon of acclaimed biographies,

Peter Ackroyd explores Poe’s literary accomplishments and legacy

against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes

sordid life. Ackroyd chronicles Poe’s difficult childhood, his

bumpy academic and military careers, and his complex relationships

with women, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin.

He describes Poe’s much-written-about problems with gambling and

alcohol with sympathy and insight, showing their connections to

Poe’s childhood and the trials, as well as the triumphs, of his

adult life. Ackroyd’s thoughtful, perceptive examinations of some

of Poe’s most famous works shed new light on these classics and on

the troubled and brilliant genius who created them.

List of Illustrations

1. The Victim

2. The Orphan

3. The Schoolboy

4. The Soldier

5. The Journalist

6. The Editor

7. The Man Who Never Smiled

8. The Bird

9. The Scandal

10. The Women

11. The Last Year

Poe's Principal Publications

Bibliography

Index

PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T. S.

Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More, and the author of the

bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his

previous Brief Life was Isaac Newton. He has won the

Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s

William Heinemann Award (jointly) and the James Tait Black Memorial

Prize, and is the holder of a CBE for services to literature. He is

the author of Thames: The Biography. His novels include

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (winner of the Somerset

Maugham Award), Hawksmoor (Guardian Fiction Prize),

Chatterton (short-listed for the Booker Prize) and most

recently The Fall of Troy. He lives in London.

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“Ackroyd is like a literary spiritualist who summons up the

voices of the dead and encourages them to possess his writing….

[Poe] is as short and sharp as a flick-knife.”

–Daily Telegraph

“Ackroyd reveals a man ahead of his time, an extraordinary

genius…”

–Daily Express

“[a] deft, lively summary”

–The Spectator

“Ackroyd…makes the reader want to re-read Poe, and indeed to read

more of Ackroyd on Poe.”

–Scotland on Sunday

“Poe’s brilliant, erratic, abbreviated career stands to gain rather

than lose from the form of brief life patented by Ackroyd. A short

biography is not a long one shrunk. Instead of patiently

accumulated details, emotional complexity and architectural

shaping, it operates by lightening strikes, atmospheric colouring,

impressionistic techniques of concision and suggestion.”

–Observer

“With an adept ventriloquism Ackroyd weaves together contemporary

testimony with his own crisp narrative…a vivid recreation of the

life and sensibility that lay behind the work.”

–Evening Standard

“A dark subject, but a light read”

–Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

“admirably captures the heady mix of the esoteric, grotesque and

thoroughly modern in Poe.”

–Sunday Times

“Peter Ackroyd is the Micky Spillane of English letters; scarcely a

morning goes by without a brilliant new novel, history or biography

popgunning out into the shops from his uber-fecund pen… his

standards are high and his imagination and erudition greater than

most other shopfillers…. informative, still atmospheric, and from

time to time clearly the work of a very fine writer”

–Word

“Such a Hammer horror biography–a veritable car-crash of a life–is

tailor-made for a writer such as Ackroyd. He sustains its intensity

in these 160 pages”

–Sunday Telegraph

“an apt biographer for Poe”

–The Irish Times

“informative and well-written”

–The Herald

“succinct and elegant … illuminating”

–Times Literary Supplement

“[Poe] recounts Poe's tumultuous and peripatetic personal

and professional life in a tone equal parts crisp and

Gothic.”

-Los Angeles Times

“Often insightful, sometimes stunning.'

-Kirkus Reviews

书籍介绍

Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a tremendous impact on European romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism, and continue to influence writers today.

In this essential addition to his canon of acclaimed biographies, Peter Ackroyd explores Poe’s literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life. Ackroyd chronicles Poe’s difficult childhood, his bumpy academic and military careers, and his complex relationships with women, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin. He describes Poe’s much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol with sympathy and insight, showing their connections to Poe’s childhood and the trials, as well as the triumphs, of his adult life. Ackroyd’s thoughtful, perceptive examinations of some of Poe’s most famous works shed new light on these classics and on the troubled and brilliant genius who created them.