Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Edgar Allan Poe [RL 8 IL 7-12] The fatal Red Death dares to stalk even Prince Prospero. Theme: inescapability of death. 56 pages. Tale Blazers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895987358
Publisher:	Perfection Learning Corporation
Publication date:	01/28/2007
Series:	Tale Blazers: American Literature Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	54
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself courtmartialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twentyone on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.