The Raven (Haunted Tales, Band 3) - Softcover

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) Edgar Allan Poe was born on January, 19th in Boston, Massachusetts, and died at Baltimore, Maryland on October 7th at only forty years old. His most famous work was The Raven a macabre tale at is best. His first book was Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). Poe was an orphan by 1811 and taken in by John and Frances Allan of Virginia. Later again loosing John Allan in 1829. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester and left, he could not afford to carry on. Gambling debts were piling up eventually ending by his enlisting in the Army in 1827. With yet another failure at becoming an officer cadet at West Point. In Virginia, he married his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836. The Raven was published in 1845 two years later he lost his wife to tuberculosis. His last work published postumatetly. Poe's death was attributed to alcohol, drugs, rabies, cholera, tuberculosis and other ailments of this own doing.