El Cuervo y Otros Cuentos

by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), escritor, poeta y crìtico estadounidense, es reconocido en todo el mundo como el primer maestro del relato corto, es especial de suspenso y terror.

Obras incluidas:

• El cuervo • Berenice • El gato negro • Los crímenes de la calle Morgue • Guillermo Wilson • La carta robada • El pozo y el péndulo • La caída de la casa Usher • La máscara de la Muerte Roja • El tonel de amontillado • Un descenso dentro del Maelström • Enterrado vivo • La caja oblonga • Manuscrito encontrado en una botella • El demonio de la perversidad • El corazón delator

226 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2013

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

[Àngel Pujol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leer a Poe es una “obligación” y un placer.

[Carlos Almazan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un tomo clásico con historias intrigantes.

[Santi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Algunos buenos cuentos, otros malos y unos que ni entendí.

[Miguel Angel]

Edgar Allan Poe. un clasico, nada que descubrir si no admirar de su actualidad, frescura y facil lectura. Cada uno de sus cuentos son obras de un escritor admirable.

[Fri · Rating 5 out of 5]

el pibe era muy romántico loco

[Lore Velazquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy bueno como toda la literatura clásica, en lo particular me gustaron más o me dieron un poco más de miedo el del gato negro, la caída de la casa de Usher, el demonio de la perversidad y el corazón delator, todos ellos llegaron a hacerme sentir realmente asustada y nerviosa por el desenlace.

[Guillermo Garcia glez · Rating 4 out of 5]

simplemente increible , como es de esperar de el gran maestro poe

[Jesus Lopez Flores · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy bueno, me encanto el gato negro y el corazon delator. Aunque hay algunas palabras difíciles de comprender.