The Death of a Beautiful Woman (eBook)
Death seemed to stalk the women in Edgar Allan Poe's life. First it came for his mother; next his beloved foster mother; finally, it claimed his young bride. Though his grief over these losses often brought him to the brink of madness, he was able to sublimate these negative emotions into some of the most darkly beautiful tales in the history of gothic fiction.
"The death of a beautiful woman," Poe wrote in an 1846 essay, "is, unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"; and the three stories comprising this Pseudoscorpion edition (Morella, Berenice, and Eleonora) certainly bolster that claim. By turns haunting, deranged, and oddly redemptive, they remain some of the author's most iconic works.
This Pseudoscorpion digital edition also includes the above-mentioned essay, The Philosophy of Composition, a painstaking analysis of Poe's own creative process.
Death seemed to stalk the women in Edgar Allan Poe's life. First it came for his mother; next his beloved foster mother; finally, it claimed his young bride. Though his grief over these losses often brought him to the brink of madness, he was able to sublimate these negative emotions into some of the most darkly beautiful tales in the history of gothic fiction.
"The death of a beautiful woman," Poe wrote in an 1846 essay, "is, unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"; and the three stories comprising this Pseudoscorpion edition (Morella, Berenice, and Eleonora) certainly bolster that claim. By turns haunting, deranged, and oddly redemptive, they remain some of the author's most iconic works.
This Pseudoscorpion digital edition also includes the above-mentioned essay, The Philosophy of Composition, a painstaking analysis of Poe's own creative process.
Death seemed to stalk the women in Edgar Allan Poe's life. First it came for his mother; next his beloved foster mother; finally, it claimed his young bride. Though his grief over these losses often brought him to the brink of madness, he was able to sublimate these negative emotions into some of the most darkly beautiful tales in the history of gothic fiction.
"The death of a beautiful woman," Poe wrote in an 1846 essay, "is, unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"; and the three stories comprising this Pseudoscorpion edition (Morella, Berenice, and Eleonora) certainly bolster that claim. By turns haunting, deranged, and oddly redemptive, they remain some of the author's most iconic works.
This Pseudoscorpion digital edition also includes the above-mentioned essay, The Philosophy of Composition, a painstaking analysis of Poe's own creative process.
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