![]() 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. His innovative style, images, and themes had a tremendous impact on European romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism, and continue to influence writers today. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas invented the first fictional detective, and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. 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: A Life Cut Short' has been translated into Persian by Shahab Shokravi Aftabkaran Publishing has released the book in 220 pages and 500 copies. ![]() The book opens with Poe's mysterious death in 1849: and like his narratives and his fables, Poe's own story ends abruptly and inconclusively. ![]()
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