The Raven's Bride (Hardcover)

from gpangel

This is a NOVEL about Virginia Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe. This book generated a little buzz when it was first published. I have had it on my TBR list for a little while. During October when I went in search of some "spooky" Halloween reads, I of course thought of Poe, and remembered this book....

from AltheaAnn

In general, I'm all in favor of the recent trend of writing biographical novels of famous men from the point of view of the women in their life. This one, about Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by his young bride, is interesting for its subject matter, but is not the most successful entry into the genre...

from golden_lily

Certainly not a bad book, but like the narrator describes on her death bed, it's a bit like someone's flipping the pages of a novel though her entire adult life. Every chapter is extremely repetitive. Poe sells a work, is happy. Poe has job, is miserable. Poe quits job, sells no more works, every...

from Elizabeth324

Edgar Allen Poe married his young first cousin, Virginia Clemm. This novel tells about this marriage from her perspective and describes her childhood. their first meeting, and their married life together. She died very young from TB at age 26, but not before Poe had written some of his greatest w...