{"product_id":"edgar-allan-poe-a-critical-biography-9780801857300","title":"Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow in paperbackthe classic  monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror  the author of \"The Red Mask of Death \" \"The Black Cat \" and \"The Murders of the Rue Morgue \" Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. \"The Raven\" and \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions  and \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" and \"The Descent into the Maelstrom\" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poes life. Against this tide of fancy  guesses  and amateur psychologizing  Arthur Hobson Quinns biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive  Quinn extracts the life from the legend  and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495971250229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801857309","price":36.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801857300.jpg?v=1780904903","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/edgar-allan-poe-a-critical-biography-9780801857300","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}