The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
However you try to escape it, horror is always there Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments.
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 court-martialled 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 twenty-one 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141038827 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141038829 |
| Title | The Masque of the Red Death |
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Series | Penguin Gothic Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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