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Horror Stories
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer and poet and one of the most preeminent figures of Gothic Literature. He is widely recognized as a master of the short story form, but also delved into poetry, essays and literary criticism. His work often revolved around dark and macabre themes, using death and the human mind's deepest fears to craft complex stories about a vast array of subjects.
The short stories selected in this volume are but an example of Edgar Allan Poe's use of fear and mystery as a literary device for creating dark and immortal tales, and a continued statement of the author's influential contribution to literature and pop culture.
The short stories selected in this volume are but an example of Edgar Allan Poe's use of fear and mystery as a literary device for creating dark and immortal tales, and a continued statement of the author's influential contribution to literature and pop culture.
125 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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Edgar Allan Poe
10.8k books29.7k 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 6, 2026
Algunas historias muy guays, otras no me he enterado de nada.
February 14, 2017
Siento decir que las historias cortas no son precisamente mi categoría literaria favorita. Son excesivamente breves de forma que al acabar no me han dicho prácticamente nada. Evidentemente no voy a culpar al autor, reconozco que sencillamente los cuentos breves no son para mí.
La mayoría de de ellas me parecía que se componían en algo así como "Una introducción y al final un suceso siniestro o inexplicable". Demasiado breve como para sentir algo por ningún personaje y el suceso final nunca solía ser lo suficientemente espectacular como para que realmente valiese la pena.
El libro contenía las siguientes historias en inglés: (Al menos me ha servido para ampliar mi vocabulario)
-The masque of the read dead.
-The tell-tale hearth.
-The black cat.
-The devil in the belfry.
-Manuscript found in a bottle.
-The oval portrait.
-The purloined letter.
-Some words with a mummy.
-The assignation.
La mayoría de de ellas me parecía que se componían en algo así como "Una introducción y al final un suceso siniestro o inexplicable". Demasiado breve como para sentir algo por ningún personaje y el suceso final nunca solía ser lo suficientemente espectacular como para que realmente valiese la pena.
El libro contenía las siguientes historias en inglés: (Al menos me ha servido para ampliar mi vocabulario)
-The masque of the read dead.
-The tell-tale hearth.
-The black cat.
-The devil in the belfry.
-Manuscript found in a bottle.
-The oval portrait.
-The purloined letter.
-Some words with a mummy.
-The assignation.
January 25, 2022
muy buen libro pero con un inglés bastante avanzado (o quizás era porque fue escrito en 1800) anyway me gustó pero hubo partes que me costó leerlo o no comprendía completamente
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