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Clásicos de Terror I
En esta antología, grandes autores clásicos narran cuentos de terror.
Lo terrorífico asusta y a la vez atrae, por eso el hombre siempre ha buscado dar forma artística a esa relación de repulsión y atracción. La lectura de relatos de este género permite conocer, reconocer y dominar ese miedo que no procede del exterior, sino que cada uno de nosotros lleva dentro.
Lo terrorífico asusta y a la vez atrae, por eso el hombre siempre ha buscado dar forma artística a esa relación de repulsión y atracción. La lectura de relatos de este género permite conocer, reconocer y dominar ese miedo que no procede del exterior, sino que cada uno de nosotros lleva dentro.
72 pages, Paperback
Published March 30, 2006
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,795 books28.7k 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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April 22, 2017
Uno de mis primeras aproximaciones a los clásicos. Lo leí cuando era muy chica (creo que tenía 9 años) y le tengo mucho cariño, por más que esté en mi biblioteca manchado de humedad y cambiando de color. Mirando hacia atrás, creo que los cuentos que conforman esta pequeña antología están bien elegidos porque funcionó. Al menos, yo seguí leyendo a esos autores.
December 7, 2022
Una lectura muy interesante y rapida, con historias que no generan un gran terror, sino que te mantienen intrigada y se centra más en generar cierta incomodidad y disgusto en el lector ante algunas sitaciones y pensanmientos de los protagonistas.
Juega más con el terror psicologico y eso es lo que más me agrada.
De las cuatro historias mi favorita fue la tercera, que resulta ser la mas corta pero aún asi fue la que más me sorprendió
Juega más con el terror psicologico y eso es lo que más me agrada.
De las cuatro historias mi favorita fue la tercera, que resulta ser la mas corta pero aún asi fue la que más me sorprendió
April 25, 2016
Cuatro cuentos cortos fáciles y rápidos de leer. Son de esos relatos que puedes leer mil y un veces. No negaré que compre este librito mayormente por qué hay un cuento de Guy Maupassant.
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