284 pages. Size: 155 x 235 mm. Paperback. EAN: 9781842329351 ISBN: 1842329359 (The Tell-Tale Heart)
This biography strips away the myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, and provides a completely fresh assessment of both the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him - a man struggling to make a living out of hack journalism and striving to find a backer for his new magazine, and a man whose life was beset by so many tragedies that he was often driven to excessive drinking and a string of unhealthy relationships. Fittingly written by another master in the art of crime writing, The Tell-Tale Heart brilliantly portrays the original creator of the detective story and reveals him as the genius, and unashamed plagiarist, that he was. Julian Symons
'As absorbing and compelling as a good detective story' - Washington Post
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