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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
註釋EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849), born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of itinerant actors, became an orphan in early childhood, and was taken into the household of John Allan, a tobacco exporter of Richmond. He took his foster father�s name as his middle name from 1824. He came to England with the Allans and attended Manor House school at Stoke Newington, and spent a year at the University of Virginia. His first volume of verse, "Tamerlane and other poems" was published in 1827 anonymously and at his own expense; then enlisted in the US army under the name of Edgar A. Perry, and entered West Point in 1830. He worked as editor on various papers, including the "Southern Literary Messenger", and began to publish his stories in magazines.