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Cuentos extraordinarios (Edición conmemorativa) / Edgar Allan Poe. Extraordinary Tales
La antología definitiva de los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, tan extraordinarios hoy como en su primera publicación, en una preciosa edición con tapa dura Incluye « La caída de la casa Usher », recientamente adaptada en Netflix y protagonizada por Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino y Mark Hamill Edgar Allan Poe libreró las terribles imágenes que atesora el subconsciente para dejarlas deambular entre sus páginas. Abanderado de la novela gótica y precursor del relato detectivesco y de la ciencia ficción, pergeñó historias que llevan el suspense y el desasosiego hasta una perfección nunca alcanzada y quizá nunca alcanzable de nuevo. Cuentos extraordinarios reúne los más celebrados de esos textos, incluidas piezas que han hecho historia como «El gato negro», «La carta robada», «El hundimiento de la Casa de Usher» o «Los asesinatos de la rue Morgue». Sobre el autor y su
«Ningún hombre ha contado con mayor magia las excepciones de la vida humana y de la naturaleza».
Charles Baudelaire
«Ningún hombre ha contado con mayor magia las excepciones de la vida humana y de la naturaleza».
Charles Baudelaire
384 pages, Hardcover
Published February 20, 2024
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,890 books28.6k followersThe 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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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November 2, 2025
Si alguna vez enviudo, ojalá Mirian sea Ligeia.
Hasta aquí mi lectura de la spooky season :)
Hasta aquí mi lectura de la spooky season :)
July 16, 2025
increíble edición, las introducciones en cada relato son unas joyas, hicieron mi lectura más amena y me ayudo a comprender el contexto de la obra, haciendo que los disfrutará y entendiera más.
algunos de mis favoritos:
1. ligeia
2. William wilson
3. el hundimiento de la casa usher
4. el corazón revelador
5. el gato negro
6. enterramiento prematuro
7. el pozo y el péndulo
8. los crímenes de la rue morgue
algunos de mis favoritos:
1. ligeia
2. William wilson
3. el hundimiento de la casa usher
4. el corazón revelador
5. el gato negro
6. enterramiento prematuro
7. el pozo y el péndulo
8. los crímenes de la rue morgue
May 28, 2025
Mi primer libro de este particular autor, Edgar, fue una experiencia nueva. Nunca había leído historias tan góticas, lo cual, en mi opinión, me enorgullece haber logrado. Algunos cuentos fueron difíciles de leer, y otros más fáciles, pero por otra parte, me enseñaron mucho a entrenar mi mente y acostumbrarme a entender las historias clásicas de Poe.
Ahora me gusta mucho su forma de escribir; es increíblemente única. ¡Un genio! La manera en que cambia drásticamente es fascinante. Sin duda, puedo decir que Los crímenes de la Rue Morgue es uno de mis cuentos favoritos de Edgar.
Ahora me gusta mucho su forma de escribir; es increíblemente única. ¡Un genio! La manera en que cambia drásticamente es fascinante. Sin duda, puedo decir que Los crímenes de la Rue Morgue es uno de mis cuentos favoritos de Edgar.
November 6, 2024
Amo a Poe. No hay nada mejor que leer sus obras en tiempos de otoño. Narraciones como “Los crímenes en la Rue Morgue”, “Manuscrito hallado en una botella”, “El pozo y el péndulo”, y “el gato negro” conforman de sus mejores producciones.
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