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Incluye:
1- El rey peste
2- Nunca apuntes tu cabeza al diablo
3- Filosofía de la composición
4- Berenice
5- The Raven
1- El rey peste
2- Nunca apuntes tu cabeza al diablo
3- Filosofía de la composición
4- Berenice
5- The Raven
156 pages, Hardcover
Published March 20, 2012
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,926 books28.8k 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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June 14, 2023
Que se puede decir de Edgar Allan Poe que no se haya dicho ya. Los relatos presentados en este pequeño volumen de lujo son espectaculares. La decisión de incluir el poema The Raven en idioma original pues Filosofía de la composición versa sobre éste, fue una gran decisión. El libro cuenta con ilustraciones que nos poniendo a tono con las lecturas. El prólogo de Alberto Laiseca es, como siempre que nombraba o hablaba del amigo Edgar, exquisito. (De hecho ya poseo un ejemplar con las obras completas de Poe en inglés, pero este libro lo compré exclusivamente por el prologuista, cosas de fanático que entiende que un prólogo bien hecho es un ensayo sobre lo que se leerá). Me llevé una grata sorpresa con las traducciones, muy bien realizadas. En resumen, The Stylus es un trabajo de amor hacia Poe y el género de terror que ayudó a cimentar en EEUU hace 163 años con The Raven. Si consiguen esta joyita de 13x13 ediciones, léanla y después me cuentan. Yo creo que no se van a decepcionar.
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