Cuentos y relatos: Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe, María Jesús Sevillano Ureta (Translator), MARÍA VICTORIA TEALDO SIMO (Translator)

352 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2021

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

[Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entre las obras completas de Edgar Allan Poe, lo que más destaca son sus abundantes cuentos y relatos, tengo tres tomos de los mismos y leí solo uno con 26 historias, así que aún me falta mucho. Independientemente de sus poemas. En éste tomo, me deleité con la Caída de la Casa Usher, la historia de un holandés que por huír de sus deudas construye un globo y se eleva para salir fuera de la Tierra, un cadavér oculto en una caja de vino, otros vinos almacenados dentro de grandes catacumbas, enterrados vivos, etc. Así todos sus relatos a cual más de terrorífico e inverosímil pero satisfactorio para cualquier lector exigente, al menos en mi caso.

[Rolando Tames · Rating 4 out of 5]

Primer tomo de esta colección. Existen algunos errores de ortografía (creo que conté alrededor de 3 o 4), pero nada grave. El contenido de las historias es variado, con clásicos como los crimenes de la calle Morgue o el escarabajo de oro, mezclados con algunas historias no tan populares del autor. Es un muy buen libro, aunque algunas de las historias no son tan interesantes como aquellas más conocidas.

De cualquier manera, es una colección bastante recomendable

[Vale Carbonell · Rating 4 out of 5]

uno muy especial