He was all but paralyzed when his sole novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), did not find the large market he felt certain he deserved. Abandoning creative work, he wrote a textbook on seashells anonymously, plagiarizing most of it from a Scottish primer published the year before. It was the only one of Poe’s books to go into a second printing in his lifetime...
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Abandoning creative work, he wrote a textbook on seashells anonymously, plagiarizing most of it from a Scottish primer published the year before. It was the only one of Poe’s books to go into a second printing in his lifetime. Poe biographer Jeffrey Meyers reckons that Poe earned a total of only $6,200 for the stories that would make him famous in his lifetime, works such as “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Black Cat,” favorites of horror buffs ever since...
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