Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Paperback Februby Edgar Allan Poe (Author) 146 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.99 Read with Our Free App Leather Bound from 70.55 2 New from 70.55 Paperback 9. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. The ultimate collection of Americas immortal author of gothic horror in a handsomely crafted leather edition. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. This Canterbury Classics edition of Edgar Allan Poe collects some of his best known work from Annabel Lee to The Fall of the House of Usher, Lenore to The Pit. Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets.

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