Download Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', and 'The Cask of Amontillardo' AudioBook Free
Edgar Allan Poe, considered the best of all freelance writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American acting professional, died the following year, and his mother, an English celebrity, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a rich Richmond merchant, used him. When he was 7, the Allans transferred to England, sending him to school at Stoke Newington; at age 12, they transferred back again to Richmond. He wished to become a copy writer, but John Allan required him to become lawyer. He failed to finish programs at the School of Virginia with West Point Military services Academy, and John Allan disowned him. Struggling to have by his writing, Poe became an ill-paid publication writer, with 26 wedded Virginia, the little princess of his aunt, Mrs Clemm, aged 14. They were happy together, and while married, he published a lot of his best work. But Virginia contracted tuberculosis, and be concerned over her health issues and their poverty led him to drink greatly. After six years of marriage, she died. Suffering a full malfunction, he was nursed back again to health by Mrs Clemm. Time for Richmond, he made a motivated attempt to quit taking in. In 1849 he received employed to a Richmond female he had treasured in his youngsters. Venturing north to acquire Mrs Clemm to the marriage, he quit off in Baltimore, Ohio. Found there laying drunk on the pavement, he was taken up to hospital, but died a couple of hours later. Poe's poems and brief stories have affected scores of freelance writers. He invented the modern detective tale, and his tales of terror are as chilling and powerful today as they may have have you been. The stories in this volume level are "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", and "The Cask of Amontillardo".
