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Like one of his gothic stories, Poe has been brought to life in the pages of Coffee with Poe as he never has before. Orphaned at the age of two, Poe is raised by John Allan—his abusive foster father—who refuses to adopt him until he becomes straight-laced and businesslike. Poe, however, fancies poetry and young women. He becomes engaged to Elmira Royster as a teenager, but the engagement is broken after her father intercepts Poe’s letters. The contentious relationship with John Allan culminates in a violent altercation, which causes Poe to leave his wealthy foster father’s home to make it as a writer. Poe tries desperately to get established as a writer but is ridiculed by the "Literati of New York." The Raven subsequently gains Poe renown in America yet he slips deeper into poverty without the support of John Allan, only making $15 off the poem’s entire publication history. Desperate for a motherly figure in his life, Poe marries his first cousin who is only thirteen. John Allan has remarried by this time and when Poe visits him on his deathbed, he is refused an interview because his second wife believes Poe is after an inheritance. Thereafter, Poe lives his last years in abject poverty while suffering through the deaths of his foster mother, grandmother, and young wife. Poe’s health begins failing and he has bouts of paranoid delusions. In a cemetery Poe becomes engaged to Helen Whitman, a dark poet who is addicted to ether, wears a small coffin about her neck, and conducts séances in her home. Her mother thinks the impoverished poet is after her money and demands that Poe sign a rare prenuptial agreement. The engagement is soon broken off because of Poe’s drinking. In his final months Poe is again engaged to Elmira Royster after a joyful reunion, yet his health is in a downward spiral. Just before their marriage Poe disappears and is later found delirious and wearing another person’s begrimed clothes. He dies a few days later, whispering his final words: "God help my poor soul."
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Coffee with Poe is a historical novel detailing Edgar Allan Poe’s life and is filled with actual letters to his three fiancées, his literary contemporaries (Longfellow, Irving, and Hawthorne), and his bitter enemies. The characters are brought to life by interactive dialogue that may have taken place from what history teaches us.
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Frances Allan once again surveyed the folded page of the Richmond Enquirer: Died-On Sunday last, Mrs. Poe, one of the actresses of the company at present playing on the Richmond Boards. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Allan, New York, Mister Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman, Graham's Magazine, Sarah Elmira Royster, Thomas Dunn English, West Point, Miss Scarsdale, New England, Southern Literary Messenger, James River, Jane Stanard, Amity Street, Edgar Poe, Martin Reynolds, Benefit Street, Charles Dickens, Rufus Griswold, Thomas English, University of Virginia, William Wilson, David Poe, Mister White New!
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Frances Allan once again surveyed the folded page of the Richmond Enquirer: Died-On Sunday last, Mrs. Poe, one of the actresses of the company at present playing on the Richmond Boards. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Allan, New York, Mister Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman, Graham's Magazine, Sarah Elmira Royster, Thomas Dunn English, West Point, Miss Scarsdale, New England, Southern Literary Messenger, James River, Jane Stanard, Amity Street, Edgar Poe, Martin Reynolds, Benefit Street, Charles Dickens, Rufus Griswold, Thomas English, University of Virginia, William Wilson, David Poe, Mister White New!
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- Edgar Poe and His Critics (Notable American Authors) by Sarah Helen Whitman on 7 pages
- Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Black Cat and Other Stories (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by Edgar Allen Poe on page 108, and Back Matter
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 115, and page 116
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving on page 75, and page 102
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