The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

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Résumé :
2023 Edgar Allan Poe Saturday 'Visiter' Award Nominee An instant family favorite! Edgar Allan Poe's immortal poem, The Raven, is retold through Charles Dickens's, A Christmas Carol. It's a dreary Christmas Eve when a young Edgar Allan Poe is visited by a raven. Haunted by the loss of his first pen, Lenore, he vows to never write again. The raven, in an attempt to show Edgar he must write forevermore, shows him the past, the present, and reveals the future as the ghost of Christmas yet to come-the Masque of the Red Death! This hand-illustrated story is best for children over the age of five. This book includes a word glossary to help your child learn new words and Poe Facts designed to educate your child on one of the world's best writers! The Edgar Allan Poe Reimagined series strives to introduce Mr. Poe's brilliant stories to young readers. Give your child a head start by introducing them to classics they will love and can relate to!...

Biographie:
One of the most Gothic short story writers of the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe was a predominant figure of the Romantic movement in American literature and is regarded as the inventor of the detective story. His literary career began with Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) but it was his deftly plotted short stories which attracted attention. He was also a noticeable literary critic and an unwearying reviewer and essayist. The recurring themes in his works-the death of women, bereavement, horror, madness, premature burial, decay, revival of the dead, life after death-are suggested to have resulted from his own life, which was a sequence of tragic events and frequent abandonments. Poe skillfully weaved these themes into his meticulous plots and created the macabre world of terror and dark romanticism bringing alive the horror through his choice of words. More than a century and a half after Poe's death, his works still remain as fresh and scary, sending a frightening chill down the spines of his readers....

Sommaire:
2023 Edgar Allan Poe Saturday 'Visiter' Award Nominee An instant family favorite! Edgar Allan Poe's immortal poem, The Raven, is retold through Charles Dickens's, A Christmas Carol. It's a dreary Christmas Eve when a young Edgar Allan Poe is visited by a raven. Haunted by the loss of his first pen, Lenore, he vows to never write again. The raven, in an attempt to show Edgar he must write forevermore, shows him the past, the present, and reveals the future as the ghost of Christmas yet to come-the Masque of the Red Death! This hand-illustrated story is best for children over the age of five. This book includes a word glossary to help your child learn new words and Poe Facts designed to educate your child on one of the world's best writers! The Edgar Allan Poe Reimagined series strives to introduce Mr. Poe's brilliant stories to young readers. Give your child a head start by introducing them to classics they will love and can relate to!...