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The Poe Shadow

By Matthew Pearl

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| Audio CD | 9780743552660

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Book Description

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL'S EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE TRUTH BEHIND POE'S DEATH!

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who mContinue

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Poe show

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl 370pp, Harvill Secker, £12.99 The thriller writer Robert Ludlum pioneered a style of title-branding which used an emphatic definite article followed by a mysterious nominal adjective and an intriguing noun: The Bourne ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

From a death to a view

Poe’s life, like his fiction, was often unhappy, melodramatic, obscure and downright mysterious. The circumstances of his death provide a perfect illustration of this curious correspondence between life and art. In 1849, Poe left Richmond, Virginia, ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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My thoughts

This book had a good attention to detail as I learned a lot about Baltimore and Paris in the late 1840s-1850s. I did find that the plot sometimes dragged a bit as Quentin's personal fate overshadowed the mystery of Poe's death, but it was nicely wrapped up at the end. I also liked Pearl's notes at t ... (continue)

This book had a good attention to detail as I learned a lot about Baltimore and Paris in the late 1840s-1850s. I did find that the plot sometimes dragged a bit as Quentin's personal fate overshadowed the mystery of Poe's death, but it was nicely wrapped up at the end. I also liked Pearl's notes at the end as he explains how he used actual newspaper quotes and letters throughout the narrative.

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