Mrs. Poe Audiobook (Free)
- Eliza Foss
- 12 h 1 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2013-10-01
Summary:
Motivated by literature’s most haunting appreciate triangle, award-winning article author Lynn Cullen provides a pitch-perfect making of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession with this fresh masterpiece of historical fiction to which Sara Gruen says, “Mrs. Poe got my heart race…Don’t miss it!”
1845: NEW YORK is certainly a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty about Mrs. Poe and criminal offense. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is normally all of the rage-the success of which a battling poet like Frances Osgood can only just dream. Like a mom trying to aid two young children after her husband’s cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the opportunity to meet up with the illustrious Mr. Poe at a little literary gathering, only if to help her fledgling career. Although not a great enthusiast of Poe’s composing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence-and the unexpected revelation that he admires her work.
What follows is certainly a flirtation, then a seduction, then an illicit affair…and with each clandestine encounter, Frances finds herself falling slowly and inexorably under the spell of her strange, complicated lover. However when Edgar’s frail wife, Virginia, insists on befriending Frances aswell, the relationship becomes as dark and twisted as you of Poe’s tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are permanently sealed, Frances starts to dread that deceiving Mrs. Poe could be as difficult as cheating death itself…
And don’t miss the next captivating book from Lynn Cullen-Twain’s End-where the acclaimed author tells a fictionalized imagining of the relationship between iconic author Mark Twain and his personal secretary, Isabel Lyon.