"To
give us a historical fiction look at Edgar Allan Poe is great. The start
where we are at his mom's funeral gives a little insight into why he may
write the way he does. It is very interesting the ideas the author has put
into the story about Poe. I
like the idea of detailing the life of Edgar Allan Poe into a historical
fiction novel. A great idea to give us some insight into why Poe maybe the
way he is."
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Expert Reviewer
Coffee with Poeretells Edgar Allan Poe’s remarkable life from his perspective. It's
filled with actual letters to his three fiancées, his literary
contemporaries (Longfellow, Irving, and Hawthorne), and his spiteful
foster father. Read about Poe's literary struggles, many romances
and battles with poverty as told from his perspective.
"Mr. Bartlett has never seen
him inspired by any more dangerous stimulant than strong coffee, of which
he was very fond & of which [he] drank freely. MacIntosh says
that the measure of a man's brain is the amount of coffee he can drink
with impunity."
Sarah
Helen Whitman (Poe's fiancée) to John Ingram, Dec. 13, 1874.
