This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar /Ulan Poe. Edgar A

llan Poe, whose life was【36】and seemingly unhappy, wrote stories and poems of mystery and 【37】, insanity (疯狂) and death. Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan after both his parents died. John Allan never officially【38】him as a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe did something【39】for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to【40】what was happening. Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern【41】fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other【42】Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe【43】other crime writers: "Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin". Dupin is a【44】that appears in a series of Allan Poe's detective stories.

Allan Poe was born in 1 089 and died in 1 849. Every year on January nineteenth, Poe's birthday, a man dressed in black【45】. His face is covered. He places a bottle of wine and three roses on Poe's grave. No one really wants to know the visitor's identity. They prefer that it remain a mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.

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