This practical handbook of medical practice has been updated and revised to take into account the modern developments in clinical medicine. It has new chapters on oncology and radiology. The main focus is on clinical management, although disease background is also given.
As unquestioned master of the "grotesque and arabesque", early 19th-century writer Edgar Allan Poe is fully represented in this classic collection originally published under the title SELECTED WRITINGS. David Galloway's Introduction reveals Poe not only as a complex personality and one of America's most exotic writers, but also as an individual who engaged in an astonishing variety of interests.
The "Poe myth" notwithstanding, Edgar Allan Poe was neither a drunkard, a dope fiend, nor a rake, says Edward H. Davidson in his introduction to this abundant collection of Poe's work: poetry, short stories, critical essays, and the complete Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. In addition to an analysis of the century- old "Poe myth," Professor Davidson provides a penetrating examination of Poe's work in each genre, a Selected Bibliography, a Poe Chronology, an index, and notes on the texts. --back cover