Poe: A Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd

Рое served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his "prose tales" - often horror melodramas such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". He wrote for and edited a number of literary magazines, and was influential among critics and writers of the American South. His versatile writings - including for example "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Raven" -continue to resonate down the centuries. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Poe: A Life Cut Short (Peter Ackroyd)