WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. Edgar Allan Poe: a life

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Kopley, Richard
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Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
818 KOPLE
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
818 KOPLE
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
818 KOPLE
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"Written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar. Richard Kopley combines a biographical narrative of Poe's enduring challenges-including his difficult foster father, his personal losses, his great struggles with depression and alcoholism, and the poverty that dogged his existence-with close readings...