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El velo negro
El velo negro (The Black Veil) es un relato de terror del escritor inglés Charles Dickens (1812-1870), publicado en la antología de 1836: Bocetos por Boz (Sketches by Boz).
El velo negro, uno de los mejores cuentos de Charles Dickens, fue también uno de los cuentos favoritos de Edgar Allan Poe, quien lo describió del siguiente modo:
El velo negro es una de las cosas más intensas jamás escritas, una producción extraña, patética, y lujosamente imaginativa.
El velo negro, uno de los mejores cuentos de Charles Dickens, fue también uno de los cuentos favoritos de Edgar Allan Poe, quien lo describió del siguiente modo:
El velo negro es una de las cosas más intensas jamás escritas, una producción extraña, patética, y lujosamente imaginativa.
159 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2000
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Charles Dickens
12.7k books31.4k followersCharles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
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April 26, 2023
Interesante lectura. El cuento central trata sobre una mujer vestida de negro por un hecho desconocido que visita a un joven cirujano durante una fría noche londinense.
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Interesting reading. The central story is about a woman dressed in black for some unknown reason who visits a young surgeon on a cold London night.
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Interesting reading. The central story is about a woman dressed in black for some unknown reason who visits a young surgeon on a cold London night.
December 26, 2021
Formidable Dickens en este cuento corto y lleno de suspenso, misterio e intriga hasta el último capítulo.
October 23, 2018
Conmovedora historia que tocó mi corazón. Intriga, suspenso, y el amor de una mujer.
December 17, 2018
Es una historia tan trágica como intensa, y muy bien escrita. Su ambientación es tétrica y oscura. No da miedo, pero sí es una experiencia mágica. (Escuché el audiolibro)
April 26, 2013
Me dio miedo (no sé exactamente por qué). Es muy breve.
April 10, 2016
Hay algo que no me termina de cerrar de este autor.
August 6, 2019
Un final inesperado, trepidante, fugaz, que me dejó sin aliento.
December 31, 2021
Me esperaba algo más de terror o algo sobrenatural 🤷♂️
August 18, 2024
La historia es buena en si, durante todo el relato te llena de suspenso y de intriga pero el final es decepcionante y apresurado, es autor se encarga de crear una atmósfera que al final, el mismo la destruye y, arruina la experiencia con un final tan malo y carente de imaginación.
May 22, 2023
✅️ MAYO 2023
◾️UN CUENTO BUENO, DIFERENTE.
◾️UN CUENTO BUENO, DIFERENTE.
December 3, 2023
Misteriosa y conmovedora. Increíble la forma en en Dickens logra esto.
January 31, 2024
Tiene muy buen inicio pero creo que abre tanto tus posibilidades de imaginación que al ver el final se te hace corto y sin sabor. Creo que el problema fue mi imaginación que se fue demasiado lejos
March 12, 2025
Ésta es de esas lecturas en que disfrutas mucho más el viaje que el destino. Muy bien escrito, muy bien llevados el misterio y la intriga aunque el final no quedó muy a la altura.
April 10, 2025
Me conmovió. La carga social en los escritos de Dickens es tan formidable que lo convierten en un ser excepcional. Y para mi el mejor escritor de ficción que haya existido.
September 16, 2025
Me tomó por sorpresa. Me conmovió.
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