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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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penniless boy facingstarvation. If we had space we should tell ofthe hard years he spent working at any odd job,because one must have bread and butter. Weshould tell of his returning to the Allan houseonly to find dear Mrs. Allan dead and to be re-fused entrance to the only home he had. Weshould tell about his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, whofound him sick and starving, took him to herhumble little home, and became like a mother tohim. He married his cousin Virginia Clemm, amere school-girl, and in spite of their poverty thelittle family of three had happy years together. From time to time Poe would take a positionwith a newspaper or magazine; but he had onefrightful enemy that always robbed him of hisposition. This enemy was his own weak will, andEdgar Allan Poe, the brilliant man who couldwrite such poetry and such thrilling stories whenhis mind was clear, was rapidly going down to adrunkards grave. Some say that he inheritedthe weakness, some say he struggled hard against John GreenleafWhiter
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lerson WashingtonIrvinq OUR GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS it, some say that he brought it upon himself. Wedo not know. We do know that his wife believedin him and loved him, and that her death was agreat sorrow to him. We know that Mrs. Clemm,though she knew his faults, loved him andmourned his death, which occurred in Baltimore,October 7, 1849, when he was forty-one yearsold. When you read Poes poems you will find themwonderfully musical. For that reason they areeasy to memorize. Learn Annabel Lee, which isa beautiful little ballad. Read The Raven,The Bells, Lenore and Israfel. Read some of his stories too. When you readThe Gold Bug, remember that it was the firststory Poe sold. How proud he was of the hun-dred-dollar prize he won for it and how much themoney meant to the trio in the poor barren littlecottage! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER If John Greenleaf Whittier had been born a weeklater, he would have been a Christmas present tohis parents, and all through life he seemed tohave the Christmas

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