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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, as the son of a couple of
traveling actors. His father David Poe Jr. probably died in 1810, and his
mother, Elizabeth Hopkins Poe, died the following year leaving three orphans.
Edgar was taken into the home of John Allan, a merchant in Richmond, Virginia.
Poe was brought up partly in England (1815-20), where he attended Manor School
at Stoke Newington. After returning to America, he attended the University
of Virginia for a short time (1826-27), but was expelled after the accumulation
of considerable gambling debts.
In 1827 Poe joined the U.S. Army as a common soldier under the assumed name
of Edgar A. Perry. In 1830 he was admitted to the academy at West Point,
but was dishonorably discharged the next year, for intentional neglect of
his duties - apparently as a result of his own determination to terminate
his military career.
In 1833 Poe was living in Baltimore with his father's sister Mrs. Maria
Clemm. He began his literary career around this time after winning a prize
of $50 for the short story 'MS Found in a Bottle'. The notoriety of
the prize launched his career as a staff writer for a succession of literary
magazines.
His first collection of stories, "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque",
containing one of his most famous works, 'The Fall of the House of Usher',
was first published in 1840.
Poe suffered from alchoholism punctuated with bouts of depression and
madness throughout his adult life, and attempted suicide in 1848. In
September of the following year he disappeared after taking a drink at
a birthday party while on his way to visit his new fiance in Richmond. He
reappeared three days later, lying in a Baltimore gutter, and died in a
Baltimore hospital shortly thereafter on the 7th of October, 1849.
The Itty Bitty Computer library contains three volumes of the works of
Edgar Allan Poe. The contents of the first volume
include:
- Berenice
- Eleonora
- King Pest
- Lionizing
- Morella
- Old English Poetry
- Some words with a Mummy
- Von Kempelen and his Discovery
- X-ing a Paragrab
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- A Tale of Jerusalem
- The Black Cat
- The Domain of Arnheim
- The Gold-Bug
- The Man of the Crowd
- The Oblong Box
- The Premature Burial
- The Sphinx
- The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
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Tales of Terror and Mystery, volume 1
by Edgar Allan Poe |
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The second volume contains seventeen more tales, which
are:
- Bon-Bon
- Hop-Frog
- Landor's Cottage
- Mesmeric Revelation
- Mystification
- Philosophy of Furniture
- Thou Art the Man
- Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
- A Descent into the Maelstrom
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- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Purloined Letter
- The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
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Tales of Terror and Mystery, volume 2
by Edgar Allan Poe |
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The contents of the final volume in this set are:
- Diddling
- How to Write A Blackwood article
- Ligeia
- Metzengerstein
- Never Bet the Devil Your Head
- Silence -- a Fable
- Three Sundays in a Week
- William Wilson
- A Predicament
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- The Assignation
- The Devil in the Belfry
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Island of the Fay
- The Murders in the Rue Morque
- The Poetic Principle
- The Spectacles
- The Tell-Tale Heart
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Tales of Terror and Mystery, volume 3
by Edgar Allan Poe |
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