Edgar Allan Poe What Do These Stories Have In Common

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Edgar Allan Poe
¨Manuscript Found in a Bottle¨. ¨Some Words With a Mummy¨. ¨The Tale Tell Heart¨. ¨The Fall of the House of Usher¨. ¨The Angel of the Odd¨. What do these five stories have in common? These were all written by the famous author: Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and he passed on October 7, 1849 ( Poe Stories, Robert Giordano). Through the forty year span of Edgar Allan Poe´s life, though tragic as it was, he wrote amazing stories as an outlet for his losses.
Edgar Allan Poe was born to David and Elizabeth Poe on January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts. By the age of two years, according to Siminoff, Poe's mother died of tuberculosis in 1811 in Richmond, Virginia (David Siminoff, Shmoop). Because

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