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Edgar Allan Poe Detective Stories
713 wordsEdgar Allan Poe had one of the greatest impacts on American Romantic and Gothic literature. All the grief that he put up with he put into his short stories and poetry. He could translate anything bad that came into his life in to words this is one of the ways he would cope with things and he was great at it. Edgar Allan Poe? s mother died when he was two years old after his father left the family about a year prior. ? His mother died at the tender age of twenty-four dealt two-year-old Edgar a cr...
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Mans Heart Heart Beating
358 wordsThe Tell-Tale Heart The narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart is definitely a person suffering from a mental illness, most probably Schizophrenia. In the first paragraph, he said that his disease didnt destroy nor dulled his senses but it had actually sharpened them, specially his hearing. The narrator said that he has no reason to kill the old man for he was kind to him. But whenever the old man set his vulture-like eyes to him, it scared him so much that he wanted to kill him and g...
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Edgar Allen Poe One Hundred Dollars
1,346 wordsEDGAR ALLEN POE Edgar Allen Poe is mainly known for his personal life rather than his great ability to write short stories. Rumors include his problem with alcoholism and drug addiction. In reality, though, Edgar Allen Poe had a talent for writing stories of horror and suspense, and also for creating Americas short story form. Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. His father, David Poe, was from a Baltimore family. He was an actor barely making a living and a hea...
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