Edgar Allan Poe

Title: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 877 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), lived a sad and deeply troubled life. After losing his mother at the age of three, he was orphaned by Frances, a close friend of his mother’s, and John Allan. After John Allan became involved in extramarital affairs while Frances lay dying of Tuberculosis, Edgar and John became estranged. John sent Edgar to the new and very rough University of Virginia with barely enough money to even get there. He struggled …showed first 75 words of 877 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 877 total…because I was so taken with the Poe stories that I later made suspense films. I don’t want to seem immodest, but I can’t help comparing what I’ve tried to put into my films with what Edgar Allan Poe put in his novels: a completely unbelievable story told to the readers with such a spell-binding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow.” – Alfred Hitchcock

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