O Corvo e Outros Contos Extraordinários - Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Imaginem um corvo misterioso que visita um homem e diz: "Nunca mais!" Enlouquecedor! Esse é o clima de O Corvo, um poema de Edgar Allan Poe, considerado pioneiro em literatura policial, suspense e mistério. Nesta edição, apresentamos as duas traduções mais famosas: de Machado de Assis e Fernando Pessoa, grandes mestres da língua portuguesa, além de outros contos extraordinários, como O Retrato Oval, A Máscara da Morte Vermelha e A Carta Roubada.

146 pages, Paperback

Published March 22, 2023

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Gilmar Dias Jr. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Engraçado que eu descobri que amo as memórias que tenho de quando li Histórias Extraordinárias do Poe, mas não amo as histórias de fato. Posso ter certeza disso, visto que alguns dos contos se repetem aqui. Nesse segundo livro da série eu me arrastei na maioria deles, graças a uma linguagem chata, a falta de um clímax e um final sem propósito (além do de causar estranheza e desconforto). Vou para o terceiro e último sem perspectivas de melhora.

[Mariana Oliveira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Parecia que eu tava lendo um filme, descrições muito boas e nada cansativas

[Luan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coletânea de diversos contos do escritor Edgar Allan Poe, um dos nomes mais influentes da literatura gótica. A edição da editora Camelot possui gravuras em certos capítulos e apresenta-se como uma experiência rápida, o que não é o caso, visto o tamanho pequeno da fonte. No geral, “O Corvo e Outros Contos Extraordinários” entrega ótimas histórias do autor, representando bem sua obra.

[lovisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5