Edgar Allan Poe
1) The Raven
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The Raven Edgar Allan Poe - In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written.This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed,...
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First published in a 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory...
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A classic horror tale from the iconic gothic author and the inspiration for the Netflix series from the creator of The Haunting of Hill House.
As The Fall of the House of Usher opens, an unnamed narrator has been summoned by his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has succumbed to a mysterious illness and longs for companionship. Upon first glance of the gloomy family mansion, the narrator is plunged into an unnerving depression, a dread...
4) El cuervo
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) fue un poeta, escritor, crítico literario y editor estadounidense. Poe fue un poeta y cuentista extraordinario y produjo obras memorables, siempre con su estilo único y pionero. En esta edición, el lector conocerá el poema narrativo El cuervo, una obra de Allan Poe que ha obsesionado a generaciones desde 1845 e inmortalizado el nombre de Edgar Alan Poe. Traducida a casi todos los idiomas, la historia del amante afligido...
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"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat", Poe offers the perspective to the perpetrator of the vile deed, who descends into madness with every step of his narrative. What begins like a normal wine-tasting journey is about to become a sinister plunge into oblivion, as Montresor's insulted, yet clearly mad...
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Poe's preference for not naming his narrators is potent once again in "The Tell-Tale Heart", a story that is trying so hard to appear sane, but fails miserably in the end. With minute preparations, perfect calculations, and even more precise execution of the conceived gruesome act, the narrator successfully fulfils his purpose, only to be lost in a battle with his sanity and guilt afterwards. Backed by the numerous movie and theatrical adaptations,...
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Embarking upon a journey to discover the limits of one's sanity and guilty conscience, "The Black Cat" is a perfect example of how no bad deed goes unpunished. Obsessively dark and violent, the story draws a psychological portrait of Poe's own miserable life spent in depression and alcoholism. Together with the superstitious symbolism of the black cat, Poe's narrative teems with guilt, violence, and dark portents. Similar to "The Tell-Tale Heart"...
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E. A. Poe's short story follows Prince Prospero and his friends' futile attempt to outrun and outsmart a deadly plague, called the Red Death. The heart of the story is presented as a masquerade where the guests revel in mirth and intoxication, oblivious of the horrors that await them. The author's narrative techniques revolve around symbolism (number seven, the clock, the black chamber) and provides an allegorical halo around the short story. Witnessing...
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Rum, a sailing ship, and a dare… …What could go wrong? Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the first adventure stories set in and around the Antarctic, which at the time was a place of mystery and the unknown. Pym takes us on an adventure across the seas to uncharted southern lands that are fraught with danger. With shipwrecks, murder, mutiny, and, yes, cannibalism, this tale has it...
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Un joven caballero es invitado al viejo caserón de un amigo de la infancia, Roderick Usher, un excéntrico artista que vive completamente recluido con su hermana, Lady Madeline, también delicada de salud. Cuando muere Madeline, Roderick decide depositar sus restos mortales en una cripta. Días después, comienza una noche de terror donde comienzan a producirse terribles acontecimientos que desembocan en un trágico final…
La caída de la casa...
11) El gato negro
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"El vivo e insondable deseo del alma de atormentarse a sí misma, de violentar su propia naturaleza, de hacer el mal por amor al mal, me impulsaba a continuar y últimamente a llevar a efecto el suplicio que había infligido al inofensivo animal."
Un joven matrimonio lleva una vida apacible y tranquila, en una casa donde abundan las mascotas a las que cuidan y quieren. En especial, el protagonista siente un fuerte cariño por Plutón, un gato negro...
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Con ánimo de vengarse de una pasada humillación, Montresor busca a Fortunato en plenos carnavales de alguna ciudad italiana (al parecer, Venecia) del siglo XIX. Ambos van disfrazados y gracias a que Fortunato está ebrio, el narrador logra convencerlo de que lo acompañe a la cueva de su palacio, las catacumbas de los Montresor, con el pretexto de probar un nuevo vino amontillado. Anímate a descubrir cómo el vengativo narrador, con una notable...
13) The Gold-Bug
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Inspired by the developments in cryptography and the gradually emerging detective fiction, "The Gold-Bug" surely got mixed critical reception from the public. Hailed as both "ingenious" and "trashy", the story's influence cannot be neglected, and surely Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" can vouch for that. What is more, the use of cipher in the story brought to the fore the interest in puzzles and hidden objects that would later be developed...
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C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" returns for the last time to solve a mystery involving a stolen letter, some blackmail, and the queen. In a series of fortunate and elaborate endeavours, Poe's third detective story is an example of how professionals do not always have all the answers, and that from time to time one needs to think outside the box. The result is a complex situation...
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One of E. A. Poe's more horror-oriented stories, "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" presents the author's obsession with death, scientific experiments, and resurrection. Playing around with forbidden and unscientific methods, Poe vehemently tries to exhibit his own medical knowledge to the reading public, asking for some sort of pardon for the horrific and disgusting end of his experiment. The depiction of gore and "detestable putrescence" paves...
16) William Wilson
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Inspired by Poe's own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud's method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, "William Wilson" is a journey within the mind. Some sixty years prior to Freud's clinical work and theoretical developments, Poe's story is an example of the rise of the psychological genre in literature.
A fruitful, and at the same time paranoid, the theme of the doppelganger runs strong in Edgar Allan...
17) Hop-Frog
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As with "The Cask of Amontillado", this story is centred around revenge as the only possible outcome for the insulted protagonist. Disrespect breeds revenge, which tinted with allegory and served with less terrific elements, manages to crown justice on top. It is a story about the triumph of the little people, acting in revenge for the violent and bestial needs of the big ones. And finally, when the masks are down, the reader can clearly see who the...
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¿No les he dicho ya que lo que toman erradamente por locura es sólo una excesiva agudeza de los sentidos?
Obsesionado por el ojo nublado y azulado de un anciano con el que vive, el narrador relata cómo hizo para librarse de aquel ojo enfermo al que asimila con el de un buitre. El asesinato es fríamente planificado y el narrador, quien sostiene estar cuerdo, revela paso a paso el espeluznante crimen. Bajo una atmósfera de nerviosísimo y tensión...
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"Y las tinieblas, y la corrupción, y la Muerte Roja lo dominaron todo"
Amenazados por la Muerte Roja, una terrible plaga con síntomas espantosos que se ha extendido sobre la tierra, el príncipe Próspero y otros mil nobles se han refugiado en su fortificada abadía. Con la intención de esperar al fin de la plaga, se recluyen rodeados de lujo y de seguridad, y con una total indiferencia hacia la muerte y el sufrimiento de la población en general.
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En Narraciones extraordinarias encontramos los conocidos relatos breves del escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe, de temperamento turbulento y morboso. Soñador y extraño a lo corriente, Poe consigue crearse un mundo irreal en el que el horror fantástico no excluye la lucidez, que expresa perfectamente con su admirable estilo, puro y atrevido. A su análisis vigoroso y minucioso se une en Poe una imaginación fecunda. En sus narraciones, oscilando...