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The Poe Shadow
de Pearl, Matthew
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400061032
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061037
- Librería
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Southbury, Connecticut, United States
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Random House, 2006. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Near Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Book and Jacket. Bumping to book spine ends, light DJ edge wear. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .
Sinopsis
"I present to you . . . the truth about this man's death and my life."Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe's.As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe's demise, he discovers that the writer's last days are riddled with unanswered questions the police are possibly willfully ignoring. Just when Poe's death seems destined to remain a mystery, and forever sealing his ignominy, inspiration strikes Quentin--in the form of Poe's own stories. The young attorney realizes that he must find the one person who can solve the strange case of Poe's death: the real-life model for Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection.In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, Quentin Clark must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of Poe's.Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl has once again crossed pitch-perfect literary history with innovative mystery to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense. Pearl's groundbreaking research--featuring documented material never published before--opens a new window on the truth behind Poe's demise, literary history's most persistent enigma. The resulting novel is a publishing event that, through sublime craftsmanship, subtle wit, and devious twists, does honor to Poe himselfFrom the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- HousatonicBooks
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 035584
- Título
- The Poe Shadow
- Autor
- Pearl, Matthew
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1400061032
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061037
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2006
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Books : Literature & Fiction : Genre Fiction : His;
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