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...other hand, perhaps their field research did not alert them to a long-ago incident: the time is the early 1960s, the setting a small, deservedly obscure village in North Dakota. Anthony Thrasher, 15, lives here and calls the place Ulalume. This allusion to the verse of Edgar Allan Poe helps explain why the boy is still languishing in the eighth grade. He suffers from premature sophistication...
...strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...
English Author Julian Symons, 70, has been putting together intricately crafted and plotted novels for roughly four decades, earning along the way more respect from peers than public fame. His history of detective fiction (Bloody Murder) and biographies of Poe and Dickens, among others, have won scholarly tribute. Just last year he was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared by only three other compatriots: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne du Maurier. Symons' name is not so well known as theirs, but like them he can invest a plot with significance beyond...
...loner with what would now be called sociopathic tendencies, a street fighter who looked on violence as the natural way to get what he wanted. Yet he was unquestionably intelligent. He read extensively in German, French and English and even wrote a novella in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. It is history's loss, if not literature's, that it was never published. Another work of fiction, an anticlerical novel, was printed and achieved some success...
Many a used car and intellectual lemon have been sold with his formula. Lindberg does not label Poe a confidence man but a "New World technician." Yet tech man and con man are related by method. Writes Lindberg: "When the New World technician reduces complex process to duplicable parts, he provides the model by which the con man reduces another's gestures to imitable steps and dissects habits of belief so as to manipulate them...