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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, essayist, playwright, literary editor and critic, one of the leading representatives of American Romanticism.

The story begins with the epigraph Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul, a quote taken from Jean de Labruyère. It translates as: It is a terrible misfortune not to be able to be alone with yourself. The same quote is used in Poe's early short story "Metzengerstein."