The Poe Shadow

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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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• English Books
• Paperback 515 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0099507242
• ISBN-13: 9780099507246
• Pub date: Jan 04, 2007
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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