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El Rey Peste
"El Rey Peste" es un relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe en el que dos marineros borrachos, Legs y Hugh, entran en una extraña casa durante una plaga en Londres. Allí, se encuentran con una extraña corte liderada por el Rey Pestilencia y su grotesco séquito, dando lugar a extraños y oscuramente divertidos acontecimientos.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 5, 2024
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,945 books28.9k 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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July 19, 2023
Dos piratas en estado grave de alcoholismo escapan corriendo de una tabernera que los persigue por no pagar las bebidas. De repente, se encuentran cercados y penetran en un poblado deshabitado porque la peste se apoderó de sus calles y moradas.
Entran en un edificio de pompas fúnebres y se encuentran con una asamblea dirigida por el rey Peste y su corte. Ante sus descortesías, tendrán que enfrentarse a un juicio sumario.
Poe nos indica al principio del cuento que se trata de una alegoría.
Historia gótica y tenebrosa.
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Two pirates in a serious state of alcoholism run away from a tavern keeper who chases them for not paying for their drinks. Suddenly, they find themselves surrounded and enter an uninhabited village because the pest has taken over its streets and dwellings.
They enter an funeral parlour and find an assembly led by King Pest and his court. Faced with their discourtesies, they will have to face a summary trial.
Poe indicates at the beginning of the story that it is an allegory.
A dark, gothic tale.
Entran en un edificio de pompas fúnebres y se encuentran con una asamblea dirigida por el rey Peste y su corte. Ante sus descortesías, tendrán que enfrentarse a un juicio sumario.
Poe nos indica al principio del cuento que se trata de una alegoría.
Historia gótica y tenebrosa.
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Two pirates in a serious state of alcoholism run away from a tavern keeper who chases them for not paying for their drinks. Suddenly, they find themselves surrounded and enter an uninhabited village because the pest has taken over its streets and dwellings.
They enter an funeral parlour and find an assembly led by King Pest and his court. Faced with their discourtesies, they will have to face a summary trial.
Poe indicates at the beginning of the story that it is an allegory.
A dark, gothic tale.
March 18, 2025
En tiempos de peste, dos marineros borrachos, tienen el encuentro más extraño de sus vidas, creo que Poe describe muy bien la escena y la atmósfera de la Inglaterra en los años de la peste. Me gustó y sorprendió su final.
October 19, 2025
No acabo de cogerle el tranquillo a Poe. En esta ocasión el relato está totalmente diferenciado en dos partes: una descriptiva muy realista y otra totalmente grotesca e inexplicable. No he entendido la relación entre ambas partes, si es que la había 🤷♀️
January 9, 2026
Es una narración fácil de leer, tiene buenos personajes que siento que no evolucionan durante la lectura… siento que se queda corto, sin un final y que en ocasiones se pierde el espacio tiempo de los hechos.
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