In this post-Apocalyptic twist on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story about the wealthy trying to escape a plague, Araby Worth, a privileged seventeen-year-old girl who feels numb after the death of her twin brother, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, falls in love, and faces the threat of a new plague.
year: 2012, 2013
call number/section: 1000, 1
subjects: plague, fiction, wealth, poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, adventure fiction, romance fiction, adventure and adventurers, fiction, love
Editions
Griffin, Bethany
Greenwillow Books (2012)
A wealthy girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow the government, and faces the threat of a new plague.
Schools: 11
Griffin, Bethany
Greenwillow (2013)
In this post-Apocalyptic twist on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story about the wealthy trying to escape a plague, Araby Worth, a privileged seventeen-year-old girl who feels numb after the death of her twin brother, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, falls in love, and faces the threat of a new plague.
Schools: 2