Comedies And Satires (Classics) - Softcover

Galloway, David; Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140390553 ISBN 13: 9780140390551

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1987

Synopsis

The writings in this volume, testify to a comic vision derived from a keen sense of literary absurdities and pretensions. At the same time, they offer an insight into Poe's more serious fiction, in which he subjects many of his cherished formulas to the corrective force of parody.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140390553
• ISBN 13: 9780140390551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256