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Summary: Solid and old-fashioned biography
Review: A meticulous and massive work that piles fact upon fact. This is a reprint of a 1941 work, and the author, Quinn, was born in 1875. He is concerned to defend Poe's reputation against charges of immorality. More background about the marriage to Virginia would have been interesting. How common were such marriages in Virginia at that time? Was the full age of 21 claimed on the marriage bond legally necessary? I don't know if Silverman's 1992 biography has this, I might try it, but 750 pages on Poe is enough for now. If you really need to see an exact reproduction of the title page of Poe's textbook of conchology, this is the book for you.
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Summary: The Best Biography of Poe Ever Written, Period
Review: This book is comprehensive and accurate in detailing the life of Poe. It is by far the most factual, accurate, comprehensive, and illuminating biography we have on Poe. All of the recent biographies of Poe pale by comparison, and are either flawed with incomplete information, or worse yet, full of inaccuracies.Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography of Poe has almost all of the information we have on Poe's life... all it is lacking are some new facts about Poe that we have learned since 1941, when the book originally came out. Even though this book was first published in 1941, it STILL has the most information, and the most accurate information of any biography to date, on the great writer, Edgar Allan Poe. I highly recommend this book to everybody.
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Summary: The Best Biography of Poe Ever Written, Period
Review: This book is comprehensive and accurate in detailing the life of Poe. It is by far the most factual, accurate, comprehensive, and illuminating biography we have on Poe. All of the recent biographies of Poe pale by comparison, and are either flawed with incomplete information, or worse yet, full of inaccuracies. Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography of Poe has almost all of the information we have on Poe's life... all it is lacking are some new facts about Poe that we have learned since 1941, when the book originally came out. Even though this book was first published in 1941, it STILL has the most information, and the most accurate information of any biography to date, on the great writer, Edgar Allan Poe. I highly recommend this book to everybody.
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Summary: A perfect narration of Poe's Life.
Review: This is the best biography about Edgar Allan Poe I have ever seen. Meticulous and clear, Arthur H. Quinn take us to the real world that E.A.POE lived and show us with facts that Poe was more than a writer, a Genius.
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