<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Authors, American — 19th century — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Authors, American — 19th century — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mysapl/rss/search?query=%22Authors%2C%20American%20%E2%80%94%2019th%20century%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:18:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></title><description><![CDATA["Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn't long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize. In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and lecturer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He threw himself into the hurly-burly of American culture and emerged as the nation's most notable political pundit. At the same time, his madcap business ventures eventually bankrupted him; of economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted. In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer's talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history" -- Jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C837695</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C837695</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chernow, Ron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/837695172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525561729/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walden]]></title><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C370914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C370914</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thoreau, Henry David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/370914172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780618457175/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walden, Or, Life in the Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thoreau's autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and, above all, the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C530427</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C530427</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thoreau, Henry David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/530427172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679418962/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></title><description><![CDATA["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 of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances our understanding of both. While incorporating past Poe scholarship, this volume also relates unknown stories of Poe culled from privately held letters unavailable to previous biographers, presenting a range of groundbreaking archival discoveries that illuminates the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C887523</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C887523</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kopley, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/887523172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780813952239/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau]]></title><description><![CDATA["Walden. yesterday I cam here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, "Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided." Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls renews Henry David Thoreau for us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Drawing on Thoreau's copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive, full of quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him. "The Thoreau I sought was not in any book, so I wrote this one, " says Walls. The result is a Thoreau unlike any seen since he walked the streets of Concord, a Thoreau for our time and all time.--Dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C502528</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C502528</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walls, Laura Dassow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/502528172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780226344690/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Bloomsbury]]></title><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C260785</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C260785</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheever, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/260785172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743264617/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C15653</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C15653</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Twain, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/15653172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780140390506/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before his literary career took off and he emerged as one of America's foremost men of letters, Mark Twain worked as a steamboat pilot in the antebellum South and Midwest. This fascinating account offers a brief history of commercial boating in the period and a probing, insightful, and eminently entertaining look at Twain's own experiences.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C118797</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C118797</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Twain, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/118797172</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620119266/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi]]></title><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C124618</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C124618</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Twain, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/124618172</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679642046/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C403113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C403113</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Twain, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1911 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/403113172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></title><description><![CDATA["Discover the tumultuous life of Edgar Allan Poe, the legendary gothic author, marked by literary genius and personal tragedy, and explore the haunting themes that defined his timeless creations. From excerpts of his chilling tales like The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven to insightful commentary and unforgettable quotes about and from Poe himself, this book paints a vivid portrait of the man behind the pen. This beautifully curated book is both an inspiring biography and a celebration of literary brilliance. Whether you're a longtime admirer of Poe or just beginning your literary adventure, Pocket Portraits: Edgar Allan Poe will leave you fascinated, inspired, and longing for more"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C858648</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C858648</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leland, Levi Lionel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/858648172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Master of the Macabre</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781507224137/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Search of Edgar Allan Poe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A definitive documentary that explores the triumphant but tragic story of the brilliant poet, master short story writer, and influential critic Edgar Allan Poe. It recounts how he invented the detective story, pioneered science fiction, and shaped the horror tale, yet was plagued by alcohol, lost love, and a penchant for self-destruction. The film sheds new light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding Poe's death and his enduring influence on later writers.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C841232</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C841232</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/841232172</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>Meet the Man Behind the Myth</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=840418319420</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn't long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize. In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and lecturer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . He threw himself into the hurly-burly of American culture, and emerged as the nation's most notable political pundit. At the same time, his madcap business ventures eventually bankrupted him; to economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted. In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer's talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C840869</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C840869</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chernow, Ron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/840869172</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593951859/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glad to the Brink of Fear]]></title><description><![CDATA["More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure, who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover, a friend, a husband, and a father. Having declared his great topic to be "the infinitude of the private man," he is nonetheless an intensely social being, who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on-hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness-the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson's life alongside landmark essays like "Self-Reliance," "Experience," and "Circles," Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom, race and inequality, love and grief. It shows, too, how his desire to see the world afresh, rather than accepting the consensus view, is a lesson that never grows old"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C836042</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C836042</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/836042172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691254333/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Roads Back]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for James, the death of his beloved cousin Minny. Weaving together biographical detail with quotations from the writers' journals and letters, Richardson shows readers how each of these writers grappled with loss and grief and ultimately achieved a level of resilience. Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in the study of nature; Thoreau leaned on the natural world's capacity for regeneration, and the comparatively small role played by individual persons; James lit upon a notion of self-governance and emotional malleability that would underwrite much of his work as a psychologist and philosopher. All three, Richardson suggests, emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in, as Emerson would write, "the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C701118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C701118</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richardson, Robert D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/701118172</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691224312/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Roads Back]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for James, the death of his beloved cousin Minny. Weaving together biographical detail with quotations from the writers' journals and letters, Richardson shows readers how each of these writers grappled with loss and grief and ultimately achieved a level of resilience. Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in the study of nature; Thoreau leaned on the natural world's capacity for regeneration, and the comparatively small role played by individual persons; James lit upon a notion of self-governance and emotional malleability that would underwrite much of his work as a psychologist and philosopher. All three, Richardson suggests, emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in, as Emerson would write, "the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C701745</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C701745</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richardson, Robert D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/701745172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691224305/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mystery of Mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and "in great distress" on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own? Mystery and horror. Poe, who remains one of the most iconic of American writers, died under haunting circumstances that reflect the two literary genres he took to new heights. Over the years, there has been a staggering amount of speculation about the cause of death, from rabies and syphilis to suicide, alcoholism, and even murder. But many of these theories are formed on the basis of the caricature we have come to associate with Poe: the gloomy-eyed grandfather of Goth, hunched over a writing desk with a raven perched on one shoulder, drunkenly scribbling his chilling masterpieces. By debunking the myths of how he lived, we come closer to understanding the real Poe-and uncovering the truth behind his mysterious death, as a new theory emerges that could prove the cause of Poe's death was haunting him all his life. In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe's increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C696973</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C696973</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawidziak, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/696973172</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250792501/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mystery of Mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and "in great distress" on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own? Mystery and horror. Poe, who remains one of the most iconic of American writers, died under haunting circumstances that reflect the two literary genres he took to new heights. Over the years, there has been a staggering amount of speculation about the cause of death, from rabies and syphilis to suicide, alcoholism, and even murder. But many of these theories are formed on the basis of the caricature we have come to associate with Poe: the gloomy-eyed grandfather of Goth, hunched over a writing desk with a raven perched on one shoulder, drunkenly scribbling his chilling masterpieces. By debunking the myths of how he lived, we come closer to understanding the real Poe-and uncovering the truth behind his mysterious death, as a new theory emerges that could prove the cause of Poe's death was haunting him all his life. In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe's increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C694288</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C694288</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawidziak, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/694288172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250792495/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mystery of Mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and "in great distress" on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own? Mystery and horror. Poe, who remains one of the most iconic of American writers, died under haunting circumstances that reflect the two literary genres he took to new heights. Over the years, there has been a staggering amount of speculation about the cause of death, from rabies and syphilis to suicide, alcoholism, and even murder. But many of these theories are formed on the basis of the caricature we have come to associate with Poe: the gloomy-eyed grandfather of Goth, hunched over a writing desk with a raven perched on one shoulder, drunkenly scribbling his chilling masterpieces. By debunking the myths of how he lived, we come closer to understanding the real Poe-and uncovering the truth behind his mysterious death, as a new theory emerges that could prove the cause of Poe's death was haunting him all his life. In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe's increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C696914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C696914</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawidziak, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/696914172</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798212276283/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up From the Depths]]></title><description><![CDATA[Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times--and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville's revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford's career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville's confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America's greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford's key insights--that Melville's darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today's foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we've been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C669129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C669129</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sachs, Aaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/669129172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691215419/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain's Hawaii]]></title><description><![CDATA["Combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain's journey through the region just as he experienced it in 1866"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C662376</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C662376</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/662376172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Humorous Romp Through History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781493053124/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walden]]></title><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C840207</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C840207</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thoreau, Henry David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/840207172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788418395734/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reason for the Darkness of the Night]]></title><description><![CDATA["A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C621714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C621714</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tresch, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/621714172</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374247850/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burning Boy]]></title><description><![CDATA["A landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C650533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C650533</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Auster, Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/650533172</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Life and Work of Stephen Crane</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250823762/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reason for the Darkness of the Night]]></title><description><![CDATA["A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C628234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C628234</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tresch, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/628234172</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666128154/MC.GIF&amp;client=sanap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>