This
approachable and engaging photobiography is a great match for anyone
with even the slightest bit of curiosity regarding Edgar Allan Poe. All
too often, Poe’s life is glossed over during short
story and poetry units of study. Packing a number of extant photos of
Poe and his contemporaries, as well as the arc of his tumultuous 40
years of life into a slim 57 pages, this volume is a perfect
introduction or second text on the subject of the life and times of
Edgar Allan Poe. Lange neatly covers real-life tragedies that lent
themselves to literary masterpieces like “The Raven” and “The Tell-tale
Heart” and inspired contemporary literature like Snicket’s Series of
Unfortunate Events. She similarly covers Poe’s tragic loves and places
his writing in literary history, crediting him with the invention of detective fiction.
Backmatter
includes a chronology, a list of quote sources, books, articles, and
websites for further reading, an index, and illustration credits. An
excellent non-fiction text to supplement or include in ELA curricular
studies, this volume straddles the divide between a simple text and a
more challenging text in regard to layout, structure, and language
features.--Jessica Fenster-Sparber
Lange, Karen. Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2009. Print.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe by Karen Lange
Labels:
biography,
Bronx,
classic literature,
common core,
non-fiction,
nonfiction,
photobiography,
poetry
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