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A Modern Detective

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241252338

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • RRP: £2.00

A Modern Detective

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241252338

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • RRP: £2.00

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.

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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and critic, best known for his macabre poetry and short stories including the dark and supernatural poem The Raven. Indeed, his own death at the age of 40 is a mystery itself; his cause of death remains unknown.

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