| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. 1 Contributor(s): Bibliophile Pro (Editor), Poe, Edgar Allan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1984284649 ISBN-13: 9781984284648 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe's sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls' school. Within three years of Poe's birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe's siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe's handwriting on the backs of Allan's ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business. |