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 * EDGAR ALLAN POE ( 1809-1849) **
 * 1) Why have you chosen this writer?
 * 2) Did he have a happy life?
 * 3) Explain how the age he was living influenced on him
 * 4)  What is novel?
 * 5)  What is short story?
 * 6)  He created the intelligent, infallible, isolated hero: name the different heros of their stories
 * 7) Main works to read and analyse
 * 8) Origins of the American detective novel with Edgar Allan Poe: 1841 //The Murders in the Rue Morgue//
 * 9)  The first American master of the short story: Nathaniel Hawthone
 * 10)  Late 19th c: Henry James in American and Joseph Conrad in England
 * 11)  20th c: James Joyce in Ireland
 * 12)  In the 1920s, ´30s and 40’s : Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner
 * 13)  Read a short story on line:

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