Download American Legends: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe AudioBook Free
A lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential information, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's first native-born professional creators, but he nevertheless embodied the now-common archetype of the musician - dark, tortured, fantastic and tragic. Blessed into troubled conditions, Poe's life barely improved over time, and when it does, his pleasure or triumph was always brief. His work was lauded during his life-time, but his lifestyle never emerged close to coordinating the legacy that could swell in the years following his death. And this untimely end, so inexplicable and pathetic, was an event that only Poe or Fate might have been macabre enough to script. However, regardless of (or simply because of) all of his anguish, Poe remains one of the fantastic forces in American literature, especially during its formative years. He was a pioneer of multiple literary customs, like the gothic, horror, dark Romanticism, detective, satire, hoax and technology fiction styles. Poe is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre.
