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    Oct 07, 2021 3 minutes

    The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

    ‘Growing up, my parents didn’t have much money for luxuries, and we often struggled to pay our bills. However, both my mother and father were compulsive readers, and I’d pick up whatever books they had and give them a read. One day, my father came home with a used set of the collected works of authors such as Wilde, Chekhov, Ibsen, and Hawthorne. Even though I was quite young, I was immediately drawn to . I devoured all of. Decades later, I reread Poe’s detective stories featuring the character C Auguste Dupin, and I found they were as good as I’d remembered. These tales certainly shaped my love of mysteries and genre fiction, even though I didn’t realise it at the time.’

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