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Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins
A Biography
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99
Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" — the first modern detective story — to the iconic poem "The Raven."
Poe's life was one of unremitting hardship. His father abandoned the family, and his mother died when he was three. Poe was thrown out of West Point, and married his beloved thirteen-year-old cousin, who died of tuberculosis at twenty-four. He was so poor that he burned furniture to stay warm. He was a scourge to other poets, but more so to himself.
In the hands of Paul Collins, this mysteriously conflicted figure emerges as a genius both driven and undone by his artistic ambitions. Collins illuminates Poe's huge successes and greatest flop (a 143-page prose poem titled "Eureka"), and even tracks down what may be Poe's first published fiction, long hidden under an enigmatic byline. Clear-eyed and sympathetic, this biography is a spellbinding story about the man once hailed as "the Shakespeare of America."
— Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
A Sci-Fi Thriller
Publisher: Touchstone
Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99
On a quiet fall evening in the peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. Subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, friends, family, the woman he loves, and the entire world as he knows it.
— Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
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