Matthew Pearl’s novel The Poe Shadow () tells the story of a young lawyer’s attempt to solve the mystery behind Edgar Allan Poe’s death. When Poe dies in Baltimore in , the public, the press, and Poe’s family and friends all accept that he died a second-rate writer and a drunkard. However, Quentin Clark, an admirer of Poe’s work, explores the puzzling facts surrounding Poe’s last days. bltadwin.ru (Matthew Pearl) The official site of The Poe Shadow, the historical novel about the death of Edgar Allan Poe. THE INTERNATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales.4/5().
Book Summary. Through the eyes of a Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, Pearl opens a new window on the truth behind Poe's demise, literary history's most persistent enigma. "I present to you the truth about this man's death and my life.". Baltimore, The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Buy The Poe Shadow by Pearl, Matthew from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The Poe Shadow: bltadwin.ru: Pearl, Matthew: Books. Quentin tells us, "Poe once wrote in a tale about the conflict between the substance and the shadow inside of us. The substance, what we know we should do, and the shadow, the dangerous and giggling Imp of the Perverse, the dark knowledge of what we must or will do or secretly want. The shadow always prevails.".
The Poe Shadow is a novel by Matthew Pearl, first published by Random House in It tells the story of one young lawyer's quest to solve the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death in It is a work of historical and literary fiction, where some previously unpublished details about the last days of Poe are conveyed through the thoughts and the actions of the main character, along with the generally shared ideas on Poe's death as of the publication date. Book Summary. Through the eyes of a Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, Pearl opens a new window on the truth behind Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent enigma. “I present to you the truth about this man’s death and my life.”. Baltimore, bltadwin.ru (Matthew Pearl) The official site of The Poe Shadow, the historical novel about the death of Edgar Allan Poe. THE INTERNATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
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