“It’s because I liked Edgar Allan Poe’s stories so much that I began to make suspense films”
ALFRED HITCHOCK
“Poe was undoubtedly a genius”
“Poe was undoubtedly a genius”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
“Poe, the marvellous lord of rhythmic expression”
“Poe, the marvellous lord of rhythmic expression”
OSCAR WILDE
“Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic where his greatest contemporaries produced only beauty ... There is really nothing to be said about it: we others simply take off our hats and let Mr Poe go first”
“Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic where his greatest contemporaries produced only beauty ... There is really nothing to be said about it: we others simply take off our hats and let Mr Poe go first”
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
“Poe is the prince of American literature”
“Poe is the prince of American literature”
VICTOR HUGO
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE BOOK
Pushkin Press presents the first mainstream edition of The Journal of Julius Rodman by Edgar Allen Poe, illustrated with photographs by Edward S Curtis.
The Journal of Julius Rodman is a fictionalised account of the first travels across the Western Wilderness, over the barrier of the Rocky Mountains. This extraordinary journal details events of the most surprising nature, and recounts the unparalleled vicissitudes and adventures experienced by a handful of men in a country which, until then, had never been explored by 'civilised man'. The first six installments of this novel were published in the Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839-40, when the author was a contributing editor of the journal. When Poe left his job in June 1840, he refused to continue the novel. Extracts of Poe’s work infamously appeared in 1839 Congress papers citing his account of the first passage across the Rockies by ‘civilised man’ as authentic. Proving to be one of Poe’s more elaborate hoaxes, this reaction illuminates the extent to which his literary realism and acute attention to detail strikes a convincing background to the hero’s travels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Journal of Julius Rodman is a fictionalised account of the first travels across the Western Wilderness, over the barrier of the Rocky Mountains. This extraordinary journal details events of the most surprising nature, and recounts the unparalleled vicissitudes and adventures experienced by a handful of men in a country which, until then, had never been explored by 'civilised man'. The first six installments of this novel were published in the Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839-40, when the author was a contributing editor of the journal. When Poe left his job in June 1840, he refused to continue the novel. Extracts of Poe’s work infamously appeared in 1839 Congress papers citing his account of the first passage across the Rockies by ‘civilised man’ as authentic. Proving to be one of Poe’s more elaborate hoaxes, this reaction illuminates the extent to which his literary realism and acute attention to detail strikes a convincing background to the hero’s travels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDGAR ALLAN POE was an American poet, short-story writer, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergence of the science fiction genre. Poe died in 1849, at the age of forty, of an undetermined illness.
Illustrated Edition
Afterword by Michael David
Cover Illustration: Courtesy of Library of Congress Photographs and Prints Division
ISBN 978 1 901285 95 6
144pp
