Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
This biographical novel recounts the life and works of the famous American author, Edgar Allen Poe. Though Poe's life was fraught with serious troubles such as alcoholism, gambling, deliquency, etc. the author, Tom Streissguth, gently approaches these subjects for his younger audience and presents them in a fashion by which children understand the severity of the problem through the consequences emerging from those acts. The novel begins with Poe's parents' history and chronologically follows hi...
poe was born in massachusets son of david and elisabeth poe traveling actors he was also in the military when he needed money poe would write comic strips to get him money he has rote a few amazing books he was also married to his 13 yr old niese at 17 pretty messed up if you ask me he was a vary weird man with every thing he did. poe was very great writer he wrote many books one of his most famous ones is raven he usaly writes messed up stories. one if my favorites is the Black Cat he killed hi...
This book is a very intersting, yet simple, biography of Edgar Allen Poe. It goes into depth of Edgar's family, the biggest points of his life, and his overall character. It follows him as he writes for one magazine, then is out of a job and struggles with drinking. The book also goes into his different relationships with women and his uncle, where he got the "Allen" in his name. The book also refers to his relationship with his cousin, Virginia, and his devastation at her death. This book is a
I really enjoyed this biography on Edgar Allan Poe and would have given it a higher rating if not for the fact that is was filled with spoilers of numerous of Poe’s short stories. My daughter and I are about to begin a unit of Poe for Language Arts, and as always I start with a biography about the covered author. Never has a book given away so much information about material we are about to read. If this is not a problem for you or your student then it is an excellent read and would be perfect f...
Thought I should read a book about Mr. Poe as we will "host" him in April 2013 for our nextBig Read.
