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Published January 1, 2015
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Edgar Allan Poe
10k books28.9k 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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October 27, 2016
Simplemente maravilloso. Sus relatos son espectaculares. Gracias a los amigos que me lo recomendaron, fue y seguirá siendo una gran experiencia. Mi encuentro con Poe a sido muy grato. Su forma de escribir logra dar voz a todos aquellos temores que viven en nosotros como la angustia, la desesperación, la frustración, la nostalgia por lo vivido.
Mis relatos favoritos son:
-El gato Negro.
-El cuervo
-El corazón Deñator
-retrato Oval, que en este siento que fue inapiracion para Óscar Wilde y su máxima obra el Retrato de Dorian Grey.
Mis relatos favoritos son:
-El gato Negro.
-El cuervo
-El corazón Deñator
-retrato Oval, que en este siento que fue inapiracion para Óscar Wilde y su máxima obra el Retrato de Dorian Grey.
November 27, 2015
Poe es sin día alguna un autor fenomenal y excelente tanto sus poemas , cuentos y ensayos llegan a atrapar al lector y le genera este sentimiento de empatía con los personajes que es algo grandioso :)
October 8, 2020
Excelente libro, aunque claro unas historias me gustaron más que otras, quede enamorada de la escritura de Edgar Allan Poe.
Los inicios de la literatura policiaca con August Dupin fue algo maravilloso de leer, sin duda podemos ver las bases de personajes como Sherlock Holmes.
Pero sin duda mi favorito fue “las aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym”, me parece curioso que el libro que menos haya disfrutado escribir este autor, haya resultado como mi favorito. Este, su único libro es una experiencia de lectura maravillosa, un personaje sumamente agradable, el cual acompañas en las más increíbles aventuras
Los inicios de la literatura policiaca con August Dupin fue algo maravilloso de leer, sin duda podemos ver las bases de personajes como Sherlock Holmes.
Pero sin duda mi favorito fue “las aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym”, me parece curioso que el libro que menos haya disfrutado escribir este autor, haya resultado como mi favorito. Este, su único libro es una experiencia de lectura maravillosa, un personaje sumamente agradable, el cual acompañas en las más increíbles aventuras
August 17, 2022
Gracias a este libro, conocí a Edgar Allan Poe, uno de mis escritores favoritos.
Es una compilación de sus relatos más conocidos. Si quieren empezar a leer horror clásico o literatura gótica, Edgar Allan Poe es una excelente opción.
Gracias a este libro, salí de un bloqueo lector, necesitaba leer algo distinto, original y macabro; y que no fuese demasiado largo. Cada capítulo es un relato diferente, empieza de los menos tétricos y según avanzas en el libro se intensifica más la atmósfera de terror.
Entre mi top 10 de relatos favoritos de Edgar Allan Poe está:
1) Corazón Acusador.
2) Gato Negro.
3) La caída de la casa Usher.
4) Enterrado vivo.
5) Doble Asesinato en la Calle Morgue.
6) La verdad en el caso del señor Valdemar.
7) Berenice.
8) El pozo y el péndulo.
9) Ligeia.
10) La máscara de la muerte roja.
Es una compilación de sus relatos más conocidos. Si quieren empezar a leer horror clásico o literatura gótica, Edgar Allan Poe es una excelente opción.
Gracias a este libro, salí de un bloqueo lector, necesitaba leer algo distinto, original y macabro; y que no fuese demasiado largo. Cada capítulo es un relato diferente, empieza de los menos tétricos y según avanzas en el libro se intensifica más la atmósfera de terror.
Entre mi top 10 de relatos favoritos de Edgar Allan Poe está:
1) Corazón Acusador.
2) Gato Negro.
3) La caída de la casa Usher.
4) Enterrado vivo.
5) Doble Asesinato en la Calle Morgue.
6) La verdad en el caso del señor Valdemar.
7) Berenice.
8) El pozo y el péndulo.
9) Ligeia.
10) La máscara de la muerte roja.
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