Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434787to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City Author: Michelle Van Parys, Scott Peeples Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft. Poe wrote short stories, poems, journalism, and editorials with urban readers in mind. He witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond and among enslaved workers in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, he saw an expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. At a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, he tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan, and later in what is now the Bronx. Poe's urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experiences living among the soldiers, slaves, and immigrants of the American city.

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