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袩芯谢薪芯械 褋芯斜褉邪薪懈械 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹芯胁
小芯写械褉卸邪薪懈械:
袣芯薪褋褌邪薪褌懈薪 袘邪谢褜屑芯薪褌. 袚械薪懈泄 芯褌泻褉褘褌懈褟, 褋褌褉. 5-9
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 肖芯谢懈芯-泻谢褍斜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 9-11
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦械褌褑械薪谐械褉褕褌械泄薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 12-20
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袚械褉褑芯谐 写械 谢'袨屑谢械褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 21-25
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧邪 褋褌械薪邪褏 袠械褉褍褋邪谢懈屑褋泻懈褏 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 26-29
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械蟹 写褘褏邪薪懈褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹 薪械 写谢褟 卸褍褉薪邪谢邪 芦袘谢褝泻胁褍写禄 懈 芯褌薪褞写褜 薪械 懈蟹 薪械谐芯) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦.袠. 袘械泻泻械褉), 褋褌褉. 30-43
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘芯薪-袘芯薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 44-62
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袪褍泻芯锌懈褋褜, 薪邪泄写械薪薪邪褟 胁 斜褍褌褘谢泻械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 63-74
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小胁懈写邪薪懈械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 75-87
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械褉械薪懈泻邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 88-97
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦芯褉械谢谢邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 98-103
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小褌褉邪薪懈褑褘 懈蟹 卸懈蟹薪懈 蟹薪邪屑械薪懈褌芯褋褌懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 104-109
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧械芯斜褘泻薪芯胁械薪薪芯械 锌褉懈泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 薪械泻芯械谐芯 袚邪薪褋邪 袩褎邪邪谢褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦. 协薪谐械谢褜谐邪褉写褌邪), 褋褌褉. 110-156
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣芯褉芯谢褜 效褍屑邪. 袪邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 褋芯写械褉卸邪褖懈泄 邪谢谢械谐芯褉懈褞 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 157-168
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝械薪褜. 袩邪褉邪斜芯谢邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 169-171
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褌褘褉械 蟹胁械褉褟 胁 芯写薪芯屑 (效械谢芯胁械泻芯 鈥� 卸懈褉邪褎) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 172-179
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦懈褋褌懈褎懈泻邪褑懈褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 180-188
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝懈褕懈薪邪. 袩褉懈褌褔邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 189-191
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袥懈谐械泄褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 192-207
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣邪泻 锌懈褋邪褌褜 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹 写谢褟 袘谢褝泻胁褍写邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 208-218
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝褉邪谐懈褔械褋泻芯械 锌芯谢芯卸械薪懈械. 袣芯褋邪 胁褉械屑械薪懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 219-227
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褉褌 薪邪 泻芯谢芯泻芯谢褜薪械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 228-235
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械谢芯胁械泻, 泻芯褌芯褉芯谐芯 懈蟹褉褍斜懈谢懈 胁 泻褍褋泻懈. 袩芯胁械褋褌褜 芯 锌芯褋谢械写薪械泄 袘褍谐邪斜褍褋泻芯-泻懈泻邪锌褍褋泻芯泄 泻邪屑锌邪薪懈懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 236-246
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩邪写械薪懈械 写芯屑邪 袗褕械褉芯胁 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 247-265
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袙懈谢褜褟屑 袙懈谢褜褋芯薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 266-286
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袪邪蟹谐芯胁芯褉 协泄褉芯褋 懈 啸邪褉屑懈芯薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 287-292
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯褔械屑褍 褎褉邪薪褑褍蟹懈泻 薪芯褋懈褌 褉褍泻褍 薪邪 锌械褉械胁褟蟹懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 293-297
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛薪械胁薪懈泻 袛卸褍谢懈褍褋邪 袪芯写屑械薪邪, 锌褉械写褋褌邪胁谢褟褞褖懈泄 褋芯斜芯泄 芯锌懈褋邪薪懈械 锌械褉胁芯谐芯 锌褍褌械褕械褋褌胁懈褟 褔械褉械蟹 褋泻邪谢懈褋褌褘械 谐芯褉褘 小械胁械褉薪芯泄 袗屑械褉懈泻懈, 褋芯胁械褉褕械薪薪芯谐芯 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹芯胁邪薪薪褘屑懈 谢褞写褜屑懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 298-360
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛械谢械褑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 361-371
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械谢芯胁械泻 褌芯谢锌褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 372-381
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 校斜懈泄褋褌胁邪 薪邪 褍谢懈褑械 袦芯褉谐 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袪. 袚邪谢褜锌械褉懈薪芯泄), 褋褌褉. 382-415
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝邪泄薪邪 袦邪褉懈 袪芯卸械 (袩褉芯写芯谢卸械薪懈械 芦校斜懈泄褋褌胁 薪邪 褍谢懈褑械 袦芯褉谐禄) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 416-466
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯褏懈褖械薪薪芯械 锌懈褋褜屑芯 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 467-485
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧懈蟹胁械褉卸械薪懈械 胁 袦邪谢褜褋褌褉械屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦. 袘芯谐芯褋谢芯胁褋泻芯泄), 褋褌褉. 486-503
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨褋褌褉芯胁 肖械懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 504-509
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械褋械写邪 袦芯薪芯褋邪 懈 校薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 510-519
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧械 蟹邪泻谢邪写褘胁邪泄 褔械褉褌褍 褋胁芯械泄 谐芯谢芯胁褘. 袪邪褋褋泻邪蟹 褋 屑芯褉邪谢褜褞 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 520-529
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 协谢械芯薪芯褉邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 530-535
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝褉懈 胁芯褋泻褉械褋械薪褜褟 薪邪 芯写薪芯泄 薪械写械谢械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 536-542
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨胁邪谢褜薪褘泄 锌芯褉褌褉械褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 543-546
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦邪褋泻邪 袣褉邪褋薪芯泄 褋屑械褉褌懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 547-552
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯屑械褋褌褜械 袗褉薪谐械泄屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 553-568
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛芯屑懈泻 袥褝薪写芯褉邪. 袛芯锌芯谢薪械薪懈械 泻 芦袩芯屑械褋褌褜褞 袗褉薪谐械泄屑禄 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 569-581
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣芯谢芯写械褑 懈 屑邪褟褌薪懈泻 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 小. 袦邪褉泻懈褕邪), 褋褌褉. 582-597
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小械褉写褑械 鈥� 芯斜谢懈褔懈褌械谢褜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 598-603
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袟芯谢芯褌芯泄 卸褍泻 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袗. 小褌邪褉褑械胁邪), 褋褌褉. 604-638
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褉薪褘泄 泻芯褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 639-648
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧邪写褍胁邪褌械谢褜褋褌胁芯 泻邪泻 褌芯褔薪邪褟 薪邪褍泻邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 649-660
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨褔泻懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 661-683
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袠褋褌芯褉懈褟 褋 胁芯蟹写褍褕薪褘屑 褕邪褉芯屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 684-696
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯胁械褋褌褜 褋泻邪谢懈褋褌褘褏 谐芯褉 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 697-707
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩褉械卸写械胁褉械屑械薪薪褘械 锌芯褏芯褉芯薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 708-721
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦械褋屑械褉懈褔械褋泻芯械 芯褌泻褉芯胁械薪懈械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 722-733
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛谢懈薪薪褘泄 谢邪褉褜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 734-744
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袗薪谐械谢 薪械芯斜褗褟褋薪懈屑芯谐芯. 协泻褋褌褉邪胁邪谐邪薪褑邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 745-754
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 芦孝褘 械褋懈 屑褍卸, 褋芯褌胁芯褉懈胁褘泄 褋懈械禄 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 小. 袦邪褉泻懈褕邪), 褋褌褉. 755-770
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袥懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪邪褟 卸懈蟹薪褜 袣邪泻胁邪褋邪 孝邪屑邪, 褝...
袣芯薪褋褌邪薪褌懈薪 袘邪谢褜屑芯薪褌. 袚械薪懈泄 芯褌泻褉褘褌懈褟, 褋褌褉. 5-9
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 肖芯谢懈芯-泻谢褍斜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 9-11
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦械褌褑械薪谐械褉褕褌械泄薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 12-20
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袚械褉褑芯谐 写械 谢'袨屑谢械褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 21-25
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧邪 褋褌械薪邪褏 袠械褉褍褋邪谢懈屑褋泻懈褏 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 26-29
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械蟹 写褘褏邪薪懈褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹 薪械 写谢褟 卸褍褉薪邪谢邪 芦袘谢褝泻胁褍写禄 懈 芯褌薪褞写褜 薪械 懈蟹 薪械谐芯) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦.袠. 袘械泻泻械褉), 褋褌褉. 30-43
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘芯薪-袘芯薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 44-62
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袪褍泻芯锌懈褋褜, 薪邪泄写械薪薪邪褟 胁 斜褍褌褘谢泻械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 63-74
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小胁懈写邪薪懈械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 75-87
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械褉械薪懈泻邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 88-97
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦芯褉械谢谢邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 98-103
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小褌褉邪薪懈褑褘 懈蟹 卸懈蟹薪懈 蟹薪邪屑械薪懈褌芯褋褌懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 104-109
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧械芯斜褘泻薪芯胁械薪薪芯械 锌褉懈泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 薪械泻芯械谐芯 袚邪薪褋邪 袩褎邪邪谢褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦. 协薪谐械谢褜谐邪褉写褌邪), 褋褌褉. 110-156
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣芯褉芯谢褜 效褍屑邪. 袪邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 褋芯写械褉卸邪褖懈泄 邪谢谢械谐芯褉懈褞 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 157-168
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝械薪褜. 袩邪褉邪斜芯谢邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 169-171
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褌褘褉械 蟹胁械褉褟 胁 芯写薪芯屑 (效械谢芯胁械泻芯 鈥� 卸懈褉邪褎) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 172-179
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦懈褋褌懈褎懈泻邪褑懈褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 180-188
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝懈褕懈薪邪. 袩褉懈褌褔邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 189-191
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袥懈谐械泄褟 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 192-207
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣邪泻 锌懈褋邪褌褜 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹 写谢褟 袘谢褝泻胁褍写邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 208-218
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝褉邪谐懈褔械褋泻芯械 锌芯谢芯卸械薪懈械. 袣芯褋邪 胁褉械屑械薪懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 219-227
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褉褌 薪邪 泻芯谢芯泻芯谢褜薪械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 228-235
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械谢芯胁械泻, 泻芯褌芯褉芯谐芯 懈蟹褉褍斜懈谢懈 胁 泻褍褋泻懈. 袩芯胁械褋褌褜 芯 锌芯褋谢械写薪械泄 袘褍谐邪斜褍褋泻芯-泻懈泻邪锌褍褋泻芯泄 泻邪屑锌邪薪懈懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 236-246
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩邪写械薪懈械 写芯屑邪 袗褕械褉芯胁 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 247-265
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袙懈谢褜褟屑 袙懈谢褜褋芯薪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 266-286
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袪邪蟹谐芯胁芯褉 协泄褉芯褋 懈 啸邪褉屑懈芯薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 287-292
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯褔械屑褍 褎褉邪薪褑褍蟹懈泻 薪芯褋懈褌 褉褍泻褍 薪邪 锌械褉械胁褟蟹懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 293-297
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛薪械胁薪懈泻 袛卸褍谢懈褍褋邪 袪芯写屑械薪邪, 锌褉械写褋褌邪胁谢褟褞褖懈泄 褋芯斜芯泄 芯锌懈褋邪薪懈械 锌械褉胁芯谐芯 锌褍褌械褕械褋褌胁懈褟 褔械褉械蟹 褋泻邪谢懈褋褌褘械 谐芯褉褘 小械胁械褉薪芯泄 袗屑械褉懈泻懈, 褋芯胁械褉褕械薪薪芯谐芯 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹芯胁邪薪薪褘屑懈 谢褞写褜屑懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 298-360
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛械谢械褑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 361-371
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械谢芯胁械泻 褌芯谢锌褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 372-381
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 校斜懈泄褋褌胁邪 薪邪 褍谢懈褑械 袦芯褉谐 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袪. 袚邪谢褜锌械褉懈薪芯泄), 褋褌褉. 382-415
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝邪泄薪邪 袦邪褉懈 袪芯卸械 (袩褉芯写芯谢卸械薪懈械 芦校斜懈泄褋褌胁 薪邪 褍谢懈褑械 袦芯褉谐禄) (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 416-466
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯褏懈褖械薪薪芯械 锌懈褋褜屑芯 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 467-485
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧懈蟹胁械褉卸械薪懈械 胁 袦邪谢褜褋褌褉械屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袦. 袘芯谐芯褋谢芯胁褋泻芯泄), 褋褌褉. 486-503
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨褋褌褉芯胁 肖械懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 504-509
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袘械褋械写邪 袦芯薪芯褋邪 懈 校薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 510-519
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧械 蟹邪泻谢邪写褘胁邪泄 褔械褉褌褍 褋胁芯械泄 谐芯谢芯胁褘. 袪邪褋褋泻邪蟹 褋 屑芯褉邪谢褜褞 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 520-529
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 协谢械芯薪芯褉邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 530-535
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 孝褉懈 胁芯褋泻褉械褋械薪褜褟 薪邪 芯写薪芯泄 薪械写械谢械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 536-542
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨胁邪谢褜薪褘泄 锌芯褉褌褉械褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 543-546
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦邪褋泻邪 袣褉邪褋薪芯泄 褋屑械褉褌懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 547-552
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯屑械褋褌褜械 袗褉薪谐械泄屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 553-568
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛芯屑懈泻 袥褝薪写芯褉邪. 袛芯锌芯谢薪械薪懈械 泻 芦袩芯屑械褋褌褜褞 袗褉薪谐械泄屑禄 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袪芯谐芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 569-581
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袣芯谢芯写械褑 懈 屑邪褟褌薪懈泻 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 小. 袦邪褉泻懈褕邪), 褋褌褉. 582-597
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 小械褉写褑械 鈥� 芯斜谢懈褔懈褌械谢褜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 598-603
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袟芯谢芯褌芯泄 卸褍泻 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袗. 小褌邪褉褑械胁邪), 褋褌褉. 604-638
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 效械褉薪褘泄 泻芯褌 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 639-648
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袧邪写褍胁邪褌械谢褜褋褌胁芯 泻邪泻 褌芯褔薪邪褟 薪邪褍泻邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 649-660
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袨褔泻懈 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 661-683
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袠褋褌芯褉懈褟 褋 胁芯蟹写褍褕薪褘屑 褕邪褉芯屑 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袟. 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 684-696
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩芯胁械褋褌褜 褋泻邪谢懈褋褌褘褏 谐芯褉 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 肖. 楔懈褉芯泻芯胁邪), 褋褌褉. 697-707
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袩褉械卸写械胁褉械屑械薪薪褘械 锌芯褏芯褉芯薪褘 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 708-721
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袦械褋屑械褉懈褔械褋泻芯械 芯褌泻褉芯胁械薪懈械 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袙. 袧械写械谢懈薪邪), 褋褌褉. 722-733
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袛谢懈薪薪褘泄 谢邪褉褜 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袧. 袛械屑褍褉芯胁芯泄), 褋褌褉. 734-744
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袗薪谐械谢 薪械芯斜褗褟褋薪懈屑芯谐芯. 协泻褋褌褉邪胁邪谐邪薪褑邪 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 袠. 袘械褉薪褕褌械泄薪), 褋褌褉. 745-754
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 芦孝褘 械褋懈 屑褍卸, 褋芯褌胁芯褉懈胁褘泄 褋懈械禄 (褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹, 锌械褉械胁芯写 小. 袦邪褉泻懈褕邪), 褋褌褉. 755-770
协写谐邪褉 袗谢谢邪薪 袩芯. 袥懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪邪褟 卸懈蟹薪褜 袣邪泻胁邪褋邪 孝邪屑邪, 褝...
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Edgar Allan Poe
10.6k听books27.7k听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鈥檚 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鈥檚 first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe鈥檚 reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls鈥� school. Within three years of Poe鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 handwriting on the backs of Allan鈥檚 ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
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Just as the bizarre characters in Poe鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls鈥� school. Within three years of Poe鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 handwriting on the backs of Allan鈥檚 ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see
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July 4, 2021
鈥淧oe es el 煤nico escritor impecable que hay. Nunca se equivoc贸.鈥� Paul Val茅ry
"Cada una de estas obras constituye una ra铆z de la que ha brotado toda una literatura. 驴D贸nde estaba la literatura polic铆aca antes de que Poe le insuflara el aliento de vida?" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Edgar Allan Poe fue el primero en darles ejemplo y ense帽ar un arte que sus sucesores, con el camino abierto y con su gu铆a, pudieron desarrollar mucho m谩s. Pese a sus limitaciones, Poe realiz贸 lo que nadie hab铆a realizado o pod铆a haber realizado, y a 茅l debemos la novela de horror moderna en su estado final y perfecto". H. P. Lovecraft
鈥淒iderot, para escoger un ejemplo entre cientos, es un autor sangu铆neo. Poe es el escritor de los nervios, e incluso de algo m谩s, y el mejor que yo conozco.鈥� Charles Baudelaire
Podr铆a citar decenas de frases de admiraci贸n de los m谩s renombrados autores de la literatura sobre Edgar Allan Poe.
Y no es necesario agregar mucho m谩s sobre lo que Poe ha generado en la literatura. Pionero en todas las 谩reas posibles, sent贸 las bases del cuento moderno, anticip贸 la ciencia ficci贸n de H. G. Wells y Jules Verne, invent贸 el g茅nero policial (como siempre digo casi cincuenta a帽os antes que el Sherlock de Conan Doyle), fue ensayista y hasta sorprendi贸 a Albert Einstein por su proto teor铆a sobre el origen del universo desarrollada en su ensayo 鈥淓ureka鈥�.
Fue un cr铆tico literario despiadado, introdujo nuevos conceptos de filosof铆a y pose铆a un extraordinario manejo de conocimientos relacionados a la mitolog铆a griega como as铆 tambi茅n profunda devoci贸n por la poes铆a.
Qu茅 m谩s se puede decir sobre su obra maestra de 1835, 鈥淓l cuervo鈥�. Hasta supo escribir sobre decoraci贸n de interiores. Tambi茅n escribi贸 una novela. S铆, una sola, pero el solo hecho de haberla escrito lo define como novelista.
Introdujo en sus personajes el influjo de toda la introspecci贸n psicol贸gica que luego Dostoievski volcar铆a en los suyos. Nadie como Poe para azotar al lector con el terror, lo macabro, el suspenso, el desasosiego y la desesperaci贸n.
Vapuleaba a sus personajes someti茅ndolos a las m谩s tremendas penurias y las situaciones m谩s extremas. Pod铆a incluir un poema rom谩ntico dentro de un cuento condenado (鈥淟igeia鈥�, 鈥淟a ca铆da de la casa de Usher鈥�) y a煤n as铆 sal铆a airoso.
Ejerci贸 hechizante influencia sobre H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort谩zar, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, George Simenon, y muchos m谩s.
Algunos de estos autores hicieron de 茅l un culto y lo tomaron como su maestro.
Todos los cuentos que uno quiera leer de Edgar Allan Poe est谩n en este libro imprescindible, con excepci贸n de 鈥淟a aventura sin par de un tal Hans Pfaall鈥� que por alguna raz贸n Edhasa decidi贸 no incluir.
Lo m谩s atrayente de este enorme volumen de 1.015 p谩ginas es que cuenta con la traducci贸n que hizo Julio Cort谩zar en 1953 a pedido de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y por la que le pagaron... 隆2500 d贸lares!
La traducci贸n le llev贸 m谩s de un a帽o y contaba don Julio que cuando tuvo que enviar todo el paquete a Puerto Rico por barco (recordemos que no se hab铆a inventado el fax a煤n), tuvo que sufrir, rez谩ndole a Dios que el env铆o no se mojara ni se lo comieran las ratas, pero por suerte, todo sali贸 bien y hoy podemos disfrutar del placer 煤nico de leer a estos dos autores a la vez.
"Cada una de estas obras constituye una ra铆z de la que ha brotado toda una literatura. 驴D贸nde estaba la literatura polic铆aca antes de que Poe le insuflara el aliento de vida?" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Edgar Allan Poe fue el primero en darles ejemplo y ense帽ar un arte que sus sucesores, con el camino abierto y con su gu铆a, pudieron desarrollar mucho m谩s. Pese a sus limitaciones, Poe realiz贸 lo que nadie hab铆a realizado o pod铆a haber realizado, y a 茅l debemos la novela de horror moderna en su estado final y perfecto". H. P. Lovecraft
鈥淒iderot, para escoger un ejemplo entre cientos, es un autor sangu铆neo. Poe es el escritor de los nervios, e incluso de algo m谩s, y el mejor que yo conozco.鈥� Charles Baudelaire
Podr铆a citar decenas de frases de admiraci贸n de los m谩s renombrados autores de la literatura sobre Edgar Allan Poe.
Y no es necesario agregar mucho m谩s sobre lo que Poe ha generado en la literatura. Pionero en todas las 谩reas posibles, sent贸 las bases del cuento moderno, anticip贸 la ciencia ficci贸n de H. G. Wells y Jules Verne, invent贸 el g茅nero policial (como siempre digo casi cincuenta a帽os antes que el Sherlock de Conan Doyle), fue ensayista y hasta sorprendi贸 a Albert Einstein por su proto teor铆a sobre el origen del universo desarrollada en su ensayo 鈥淓ureka鈥�.
Fue un cr铆tico literario despiadado, introdujo nuevos conceptos de filosof铆a y pose铆a un extraordinario manejo de conocimientos relacionados a la mitolog铆a griega como as铆 tambi茅n profunda devoci贸n por la poes铆a.
Qu茅 m谩s se puede decir sobre su obra maestra de 1835, 鈥淓l cuervo鈥�. Hasta supo escribir sobre decoraci贸n de interiores. Tambi茅n escribi贸 una novela. S铆, una sola, pero el solo hecho de haberla escrito lo define como novelista.
Introdujo en sus personajes el influjo de toda la introspecci贸n psicol贸gica que luego Dostoievski volcar铆a en los suyos. Nadie como Poe para azotar al lector con el terror, lo macabro, el suspenso, el desasosiego y la desesperaci贸n.
Vapuleaba a sus personajes someti茅ndolos a las m谩s tremendas penurias y las situaciones m谩s extremas. Pod铆a incluir un poema rom谩ntico dentro de un cuento condenado (鈥淟igeia鈥�, 鈥淟a ca铆da de la casa de Usher鈥�) y a煤n as铆 sal铆a airoso.
Ejerci贸 hechizante influencia sobre H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort谩zar, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, George Simenon, y muchos m谩s.
Algunos de estos autores hicieron de 茅l un culto y lo tomaron como su maestro.
Todos los cuentos que uno quiera leer de Edgar Allan Poe est谩n en este libro imprescindible, con excepci贸n de 鈥淟a aventura sin par de un tal Hans Pfaall鈥� que por alguna raz贸n Edhasa decidi贸 no incluir.
Lo m谩s atrayente de este enorme volumen de 1.015 p谩ginas es que cuenta con la traducci贸n que hizo Julio Cort谩zar en 1953 a pedido de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y por la que le pagaron... 隆2500 d贸lares!
La traducci贸n le llev贸 m谩s de un a帽o y contaba don Julio que cuando tuvo que enviar todo el paquete a Puerto Rico por barco (recordemos que no se hab铆a inventado el fax a煤n), tuvo que sufrir, rez谩ndole a Dios que el env铆o no se mojara ni se lo comieran las ratas, pero por suerte, todo sali贸 bien y hoy podemos disfrutar del placer 煤nico de leer a estos dos autores a la vez.
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Geniale e divertente. Usate le sensazioni!
- La falce del tempo (1838):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Quando finir貌 di ridere, scriver貌 qualcosa.
- Perch茅 il piccolo francese porta la mano al collo (1838):猸愨瓙猸�
Un corteggiamento...particolare.
- Il diavolo nella torre (1839):猸愨瓙
Di un piccolo villaggio e dell' abitudine
- William Wilson (1839):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Dei peccati da scontare
- L'uomo interamente consumato (1839): 猸愨瓙
Quando le apperenze ingannano...
- La rovina della casa degli Usher (1839): 猸愨瓙猸�
Temi gi脿 affrontati
- La conversazione di Eiros e Charmion (1839): 猸愨瓙猸�
A proposito della cometa.
- Il diario di Julius Rodman (1839):
- L' uomo d'affari (1840):
- L' uomo della folla (1841):
- Gli assassinii della Rue Morgue (1841):
- Eleonora (1841):
- Una discesa nel melstrom (1841):
- L' isola della fata (1841):
- Il colloquio di Monos e Una (1841):
- Non bisogna scommettere la testa col diavolo. Racconto morale (1841):
- Tre domeniche in una settimana (1841):
- Il ritratto ovale (1842):
- La maschera della morte rossa (1842):
- Il pozzo e il pendolo (1842):
- Il mistero di Marie Roget (1842):
- Le terre di Arnheim (1842):
- Lo scarabeo d'oro (1842):
- Il cuore rivelatore (1842):
- Il gatto nero (1843):
- La truffa. Considerata come scienza esatta (1843):
- Una storia delle Rugged Mountains (1843):
- Gli occhiali (1844):
- Il seppellimento prematuro (1844):
- La burla del pallone (1844):
- La cassa oblunga (1844):
- La lettera rubata (1844):
- Vita letteraria di Thingum Bob, defunto direttore del "Goosetherumfoodle", narrata da lui medesimo (1844):
- Rivelazione mesmerica (1844):
- Il sistema del dot. Catrame e del prof. Piuma (1844):
- Sei stato tu! (1844):
- L' Angelo del Bizzarro (1844):
- Quattro chiacchiere con una mummia (1844):
- La millesimaseconda notte di Sherazade (1844):
- Il potere delle parole (1845):
- Il demone della perversit脿 (1845):
- La verit脿 sul caso di mr Valdemar (1845):
- La sfinge (1845):
- La botte di Amontillado (1846):
- Mellonta Tauta (1848):
- Il villino di Landor (1849):
- Hop-Frog (1849):
- Di von Kempelen e della sua invenzione (1849):
- Come ci icsa un paragrabo (1849):
- Il Faro (1849):
"Sognare 猫 stato lo scopo della mia esistenza che per l鈥檃ppunto ho trascorso a sognare."
"I pregiudizi dell'armonia di luogo e, specie, di tempo, sono gli spauracchi che distolgono l'umanit脿 dalla contemplazione del magnifico.
- Senza Fiato (1831):猸愨瓙猸�
Di quel tale che all' improvviso scopr矛 il silenzio. Tra citazioni e tanta ironia.
- Metzengerstein (1831):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Che la vendetta infuri!.
- L'appuntamento (1832):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙猸�
Quando la prosa diviene poesia.
- Silenzio. Favola (1832):猸愨瓙猸�
Il Demonio narra una storia di un altro luogo e un altro tempo.
- Manoscritto trovato in una bottiglia (1832):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙猸�
Del mare nero e del vagare infinito.
- Berenice (1832):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Come lo spirito di un suono svanito, come lucente avorio.
- Re Peste. Storia che contiene un' allegoria (1832):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙猸�
Della prosa e della sua meraviglia. Un goccio di troppo pu貌 rendere una serata interessante.
- Bon-bon (1832):猸愨瓙
Del diavolo e delle anime dei filosofi. Troppi nomi per un banchetto.
- Il duca de l' Omelette (1832):猸愨瓙
Risvegliarsi all' inferno e non conoscere il francese. Una partita a carte pu貌 redimere.
- Storiella Ebraica (1832):猸愨瓙猸�
Un dono inatteso.
- Quattro bestie in una. L' uomo camaleopardo (1833):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Quando la fede rende ciechi.
- Morella (1835):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙猸�
Un nome, in eterno.
- L' incomparabile avventura di un certo Hans Pfaall (1835):猸愨瓙
Hahahhaha, anche no.
- Ombra. Una parabola (1835):猸愨瓙猸�
Di ombre e di voci
- Lionizing (1835):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
A Fum-Fudge si misura il naso.
- Le avventure di Gordon Pym (1837):猸愨瓙
DNF. Purtroppo non riesco ad andare avanti.
- Mistificazione (1837):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Di duelli e babbuini.
- Ligeia (1838):猸愨瓙猸�
La morte non pu貌 dividerci.
- Come si scrive un articolo "da Blackwood" (1838):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Geniale e divertente. Usate le sensazioni!
- La falce del tempo (1838):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Quando finir貌 di ridere, scriver貌 qualcosa.
- Perch茅 il piccolo francese porta la mano al collo (1838):猸愨瓙猸�
Un corteggiamento...particolare.
- Il diavolo nella torre (1839):猸愨瓙
Di un piccolo villaggio e dell' abitudine
- William Wilson (1839):猸愨瓙猸愨瓙
Dei peccati da scontare
- L'uomo interamente consumato (1839): 猸愨瓙
Quando le apperenze ingannano...
- La rovina della casa degli Usher (1839): 猸愨瓙猸�
Temi gi脿 affrontati
- La conversazione di Eiros e Charmion (1839): 猸愨瓙猸�
A proposito della cometa.
- Il diario di Julius Rodman (1839):
- L' uomo d'affari (1840):
- L' uomo della folla (1841):
- Gli assassinii della Rue Morgue (1841):
- Eleonora (1841):
- Una discesa nel melstrom (1841):
- L' isola della fata (1841):
- Il colloquio di Monos e Una (1841):
- Non bisogna scommettere la testa col diavolo. Racconto morale (1841):
- Tre domeniche in una settimana (1841):
- Il ritratto ovale (1842):
- La maschera della morte rossa (1842):
- Il pozzo e il pendolo (1842):
- Il mistero di Marie Roget (1842):
- Le terre di Arnheim (1842):
- Lo scarabeo d'oro (1842):
- Il cuore rivelatore (1842):
- Il gatto nero (1843):
- La truffa. Considerata come scienza esatta (1843):
- Una storia delle Rugged Mountains (1843):
- Gli occhiali (1844):
- Il seppellimento prematuro (1844):
- La burla del pallone (1844):
- La cassa oblunga (1844):
- La lettera rubata (1844):
- Vita letteraria di Thingum Bob, defunto direttore del "Goosetherumfoodle", narrata da lui medesimo (1844):
- Rivelazione mesmerica (1844):
- Il sistema del dot. Catrame e del prof. Piuma (1844):
- Sei stato tu! (1844):
- L' Angelo del Bizzarro (1844):
- Quattro chiacchiere con una mummia (1844):
- La millesimaseconda notte di Sherazade (1844):
- Il potere delle parole (1845):
- Il demone della perversit脿 (1845):
- La verit脿 sul caso di mr Valdemar (1845):
- La sfinge (1845):
- La botte di Amontillado (1846):
- Mellonta Tauta (1848):
- Il villino di Landor (1849):
- Hop-Frog (1849):
- Di von Kempelen e della sua invenzione (1849):
- Come ci icsa un paragrabo (1849):
- Il Faro (1849):
February 19, 2019
A motley collection of short stories from Poe (the complete collection!) 鈥� horror, suspense, comedy, detective, general life observations, even science fiction. At times the stories are too wordy, but Poe always entertains with his grand imagination. I greatly enjoyed Bob Thomley's narration of the audiobook. 鈾�
饾摀饾摬饾摢饾摲饾摢 | | | 鉁�
饾摀饾摬饾摢饾摲饾摢 | | | 鉁�
October 21, 2019
Sta ja da kazem sto vec o E. A. Pou nije receno. Bez sumnje veliki virtouz pisane reci. Apsolutno me je fascinirala sirina njegovog znanja. Neosporno je da su ranije ljudi mnogo vise znanja drzali u svojim glavama a manje na guglu i da je to znanje bilo stvarno i temeljito a ne povrsno i na nivou prepoznavanja. Jedan od najvecih ikada!
June 1, 2021
芦Los l铆mites que separan la Vida de la Muerte son muy tenebrosos y vagos. 驴Qui茅n puede decir d贸nde termina la una y d贸nde comienza la otra?禄
January 18, 2017
丕丿诏丕乇 丕賱賳 倬賵.. 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴 丕賷 亘丕 賮囟丕賷 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賷 毓噩賷亘 賵 乇丕夭 丌賱賵丿.
丕夭 爻丕賱賴丕 倬賷卮 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 賷賰 賲噩賲賵毓賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賰賵鬲丕賴 丕夭 丕賵 亘賴 卮禺氐賷鬲 禺賵丿卮 賵 丕孬丕乇卮 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿 卮丿賲.
賵 丿乇 丨丕賱 丨丕囟乇 鬲賲丕賲 賮賰乇 賲賳 賲鬲毓賱賯 亘賴 丕賷賳 賲乇丿 丕爻鬲 .
丕賱亘鬲賴 賲孬賱 賴賲賴 賷 卮毓乇 賴丕 賵 賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕賷 鬲乇噩賲賴 卮丿賴 賷 丿賷诏乇 貙 鬲乇噩賲賴 賷 丌賳 亘賴 丕賳丿丕夭賴 賷 賳爻禺賴 賷 丕氐賱賷 丕卮 噩匕丕亘 賳賷爻鬲.
倬賷卮賳賴丕丿 賲賷卮賴 賰賴 卮毓乇 丕賳诏賱賷爻賷 丌賳 乇丕 亘乇丕賷 鬲兀孬賷乇 亘賷卮鬲乇 丕夭 丨爻 賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕 亘禺賵丕賳賷丿 .
丕夭 爻丕賱賴丕 倬賷卮 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 賷賰 賲噩賲賵毓賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賰賵鬲丕賴 丕夭 丕賵 亘賴 卮禺氐賷鬲 禺賵丿卮 賵 丕孬丕乇卮 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿 卮丿賲.
賵 丿乇 丨丕賱 丨丕囟乇 鬲賲丕賲 賮賰乇 賲賳 賲鬲毓賱賯 亘賴 丕賷賳 賲乇丿 丕爻鬲 .
丕賱亘鬲賴 賲孬賱 賴賲賴 賷 卮毓乇 賴丕 賵 賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕賷 鬲乇噩賲賴 卮丿賴 賷 丿賷诏乇 貙 鬲乇噩賲賴 賷 丌賳 亘賴 丕賳丿丕夭賴 賷 賳爻禺賴 賷 丕氐賱賷 丕卮 噩匕丕亘 賳賷爻鬲.
倬賷卮賳賴丕丿 賲賷卮賴 賰賴 卮毓乇 丕賳诏賱賷爻賷 丌賳 乇丕 亘乇丕賷 鬲兀孬賷乇 亘賷卮鬲乇 丕夭 丨爻 賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕 亘禺賵丕賳賷丿 .
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January 14, 2020No puedo puntuar este libro por una sencilla raz贸n: no lo he le铆do completo. Mi intenci贸n era hacerlo, pero creo que ha sido un error conocer al autor con una antolog铆a tan extensa, quiz谩 deber铆a haber empezado por otra recopilaci贸n de relatos que se centrase en los m谩s famosos o relevantes, porque esta me ha abrumado bastante.
Cuando iba m谩s o menos por la p谩gina 400 y tras algunos relatos que se me hicieron demasiado densos y me imped铆an avanzar con ganas, decid铆 leer DE MOMENTO solo aquellos m谩s reconocidos, y mi experiencia con el autor cambi贸 radicalmente.
Como en toda antolog铆a, hay relatos m谩s potentes que otros. En este caso, unos me han parecido fascinantes y otros se me han hecho muy cuesta arriba.
Mis favoritos de los que al final he le铆do completos, son los siguientes:
- Sin aliento
- Morella
- La m谩scara de la muerte roja
- El pozo y el p茅ndulo (creo que este ha sido mi preferido)
- El coraz贸n revelador
- El gato negro
- El enterramiento prematuro
- El caso del se帽or Valdemar
- La esfinge
Al final mi primer contacto con el autor ha sido positivo en general, aunque no haya sido una lectura especialmente f谩cil para mi. Quiz谩 m谩s adelante pruebe con el resto de relatos que me he dejado por el camino, pero ahora mismo creo que no es el momento de forzarme con ello.
Cuando iba m谩s o menos por la p谩gina 400 y tras algunos relatos que se me hicieron demasiado densos y me imped铆an avanzar con ganas, decid铆 leer DE MOMENTO solo aquellos m谩s reconocidos, y mi experiencia con el autor cambi贸 radicalmente.
Como en toda antolog铆a, hay relatos m谩s potentes que otros. En este caso, unos me han parecido fascinantes y otros se me han hecho muy cuesta arriba.
Mis favoritos de los que al final he le铆do completos, son los siguientes:
- Sin aliento
- Morella
- La m谩scara de la muerte roja
- El pozo y el p茅ndulo (creo que este ha sido mi preferido)
- El coraz贸n revelador
- El gato negro
- El enterramiento prematuro
- El caso del se帽or Valdemar
- La esfinge
Al final mi primer contacto con el autor ha sido positivo en general, aunque no haya sido una lectura especialmente f谩cil para mi. Quiz谩 m谩s adelante pruebe con el resto de relatos que me he dejado por el camino, pero ahora mismo creo que no es el momento de forzarme con ello.
April 16, 2025
Mi calificaci贸n personal de los cuentos y poemas de Edgar Allan Poe
鈥a ca铆da de la casa Usher 3.5/5
鈥l coraz贸n delator 5/5
鈥a m谩scara de la muerte roja 5/5
鈥an煤scrito hallado en una botella 3/5
鈥l gato negro 5/5
鈥iliam Wilson 4.5/5
鈥l retrato oval 3/5
鈥os hechos en el caso de M. Valdemar 3.5/5
鈥l entierro prematuro 3.5/5
鈥l Pozo y el P茅ndulo 4/5
鈥l hombre de la multitud 3/5
鈥l barril de Amontillado 4/5
鈥ilencio - una f谩bula 3/5
鈥a caja oblonga 4/5
鈥op-Frog 3.5/5
鈥l demonio de la perversidad 3/5
鈥l m茅todo del doctor Tarr y del profesor Fether 3.5/5
鈥l diablo en el campanario 4/5
鈥unca apuestes tu cabeza al diablo 5/5
鈥oversaci贸n con una momia 4/5
鈥erenice 5/5
鈥a esfinge 3/5
鈥leonora 3/5
鈥l cuervo 4/5
鈥l Valle de la inquietud 2/5
鈥a ca铆da de la casa Usher 3.5/5
鈥l coraz贸n delator 5/5
鈥a m谩scara de la muerte roja 5/5
鈥an煤scrito hallado en una botella 3/5
鈥l gato negro 5/5
鈥iliam Wilson 4.5/5
鈥l retrato oval 3/5
鈥os hechos en el caso de M. Valdemar 3.5/5
鈥l entierro prematuro 3.5/5
鈥l Pozo y el P茅ndulo 4/5
鈥l hombre de la multitud 3/5
鈥l barril de Amontillado 4/5
鈥ilencio - una f谩bula 3/5
鈥a caja oblonga 4/5
鈥op-Frog 3.5/5
鈥l demonio de la perversidad 3/5
鈥l m茅todo del doctor Tarr y del profesor Fether 3.5/5
鈥l diablo en el campanario 4/5
鈥unca apuestes tu cabeza al diablo 5/5
鈥oversaci贸n con una momia 4/5
鈥erenice 5/5
鈥a esfinge 3/5
鈥leonora 3/5
鈥l cuervo 4/5
鈥l Valle de la inquietud 2/5
April 4, 2019
Started this last night. recently rescued I think. Needed something else to read. From now on I think I'll keep a book of short stories going. Or maybe poetry. This book has both.
The Telltale Heart - Amusingly creepy and funny. I think Michael Richards might have learned from this one!
The Masque of the Red Death - brief and morbid. Roger Corman somehow made a full-length movie out of this starring Vincent Price(of course) as Prince Prospero.
The Cask of Amontillado - already read a couple of years ago. Revenge is SWEET!
Metzengerstein - Got confounded by pronunciation(Poe's little joke on us?) of those German names as well as confused about whet the heck was going on. Something about revenge, transmigration of souls, a crazy-assed/possessed horse, a bad-boy Baron and so forth. Not my favorite so far.
The Pit and the Pendulum - Another re-read from long ago. Must've been in H.S. This is a good one with that rescuing, last-second hand of General LaSalle! So far I think I've read all of these before and the next one too - duh!
- the manipulations of the torturers are reminiscent of "The Hunger Games" and the arena.
The Fall of the House of Usher - This one supposedly takes place in Scotland and I will be reading closely to confirm that - it's in a trivia question. Read before fairly recently. So - once again I find no mention of Scotland in the story so I assume that Poe must have identified the setting as Scotland outside of the context of the story. The story itself is a bit problematic...
- Why doesn't our narrator persuade Roderick to take Madeline and get the bleep AWAY from that foul place???
- That narrator is Mr. Ineffectual on steroids - no help at all!
- The narrative style is more elaborate and "precious" that the previous stories, lending more support to the weakling friend notion. It also makes the story a bit less enjoyable to read.
- Fuseli - ?
- Poe glosses over the "is she really dead" question. Where's the doctor??? A little mirror held up to her mouth might have helped - eh!!! Was the friend(an ineffectual moron) as nutty as Roderick?
- Why does Roderick call the friend/narrator a madman? Did the friend even exist? If he doesn't then who tells the story?
The Black Cat - Not a favorite due to the cruelty-to-an-animal content - UGH! Our narrator is an unredeemed and nasty-crazy scumbag.
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - A bit of a Rip van Winkle rip-off in this one. The story is strange rather than scary and what all it's about is a mystery to me. Diverting enough ...
The Oblong Box - A brief and creepy tale. Not scary. Nice writing about the trials of a ship at sea in "challenging" weather. A la Conrad ...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Have only read the scratching introduction so far. All about chess, checkers, whist and ??????? Finished last night. I knew the solution because I'd seen the Karl Malden film version with a guy in a gorilla(oran-utan) suit. I might have seem the Bela Lugosi one too. M. Dupin is very Sherlockian ... before Sherlock.
The Purloined Letter - More from EAP about how to think super-logically(like M. Dupin). This one continues the Sherlocky stuff nicely. I read this one not too long ago, perhaps in "Fiction 101" ???
Ms. Found in a Bottle - A fantastic seagoing tale and much fun to read. Links to Coleridge and Conrad.
The Oval Portrait - A short short story with a philosophical message.
Berenice - Another buried alive tale(can't these Poe people find some way to verify that someone is REALLY dead before they go and bury them????) with a gruesome twist. I think I might've read this one before.
A Descent into the Maelstrom - Another intense, Conradian sea-tale, this time about a very real place in Norway. I looked it up in my Nat. Geo. World Atlas. The opening of it took me back to an unnerving experience I had while mountain- hiking in Colorado many years ago. Think you've had stressful experiences? Read this story!
Thou Art the Man - An amusing, if incredible, whodunit tale in which the reader suspects strongly(and correctly) all along who the killer really is. The fun is in the explanation at the end - ingenious!
Mystification - another amusing, lightweight tale of a boorish fool being made fun of and not understanding AT ALL. Good stuff by the ironic Mr. Poe.
The Imp of the Perverse - Introduction - This is a stand-alone piece, actually, and quite amusing and interesting. It's fun to read this stuff aloud and doing that will help in the understanding of it as well. Poe can be clear as a bell, if somewhat convoluted/archaic when he so chooses. At times he himself becomes a bit perverse and writes in such a baroque style that it becomes harder to read and difficult to comprehend!
The Imp of the Perverse - Another killer who can't keep his mouth shut a la "The Tell-Tale Heart."
The Premature Burial - A tale perversely both humorous and scary.
William Wilson(plus introduction) - An odd-one about a guy with a split personality(I think).
Ligeia - Filmed as "The Tomb of Ligeia" ... Creepy-crawly ghost story a bit reminiscent of "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
Morella - Another entertaining tale that dances around the same supernatural and death-focused flames of many preceding stories. I only read one a night lest I get bored with the sameness of them. The writing is always a treat but Poe's narrators are ALL tormented, unbalanced men. Like the author, I suppose!
Shadow: a Parable - more death mysteries ...
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - all about the afterlife. I really enjoyed this one.
Silence - More of that impressively fantastic and imaginative prose. An inspiration to Lovecraft I assume.
Poems - all the big hits are here.
No problem rating this book a solid 4* though I do believe that people make the mistake of taking Poe too seriously. He can be pretty funny!
The Telltale Heart - Amusingly creepy and funny. I think Michael Richards might have learned from this one!
The Masque of the Red Death - brief and morbid. Roger Corman somehow made a full-length movie out of this starring Vincent Price(of course) as Prince Prospero.
The Cask of Amontillado - already read a couple of years ago. Revenge is SWEET!
Metzengerstein - Got confounded by pronunciation(Poe's little joke on us?) of those German names as well as confused about whet the heck was going on. Something about revenge, transmigration of souls, a crazy-assed/possessed horse, a bad-boy Baron and so forth. Not my favorite so far.
The Pit and the Pendulum - Another re-read from long ago. Must've been in H.S. This is a good one with that rescuing, last-second hand of General LaSalle! So far I think I've read all of these before and the next one too - duh!
- the manipulations of the torturers are reminiscent of "The Hunger Games" and the arena.
The Fall of the House of Usher - This one supposedly takes place in Scotland and I will be reading closely to confirm that - it's in a trivia question. Read before fairly recently. So - once again I find no mention of Scotland in the story so I assume that Poe must have identified the setting as Scotland outside of the context of the story. The story itself is a bit problematic...
- Why doesn't our narrator persuade Roderick to take Madeline and get the bleep AWAY from that foul place???
- That narrator is Mr. Ineffectual on steroids - no help at all!
- The narrative style is more elaborate and "precious" that the previous stories, lending more support to the weakling friend notion. It also makes the story a bit less enjoyable to read.
- Fuseli - ?
- Poe glosses over the "is she really dead" question. Where's the doctor??? A little mirror held up to her mouth might have helped - eh!!! Was the friend(an ineffectual moron) as nutty as Roderick?
- Why does Roderick call the friend/narrator a madman? Did the friend even exist? If he doesn't then who tells the story?
The Black Cat - Not a favorite due to the cruelty-to-an-animal content - UGH! Our narrator is an unredeemed and nasty-crazy scumbag.
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - A bit of a Rip van Winkle rip-off in this one. The story is strange rather than scary and what all it's about is a mystery to me. Diverting enough ...
The Oblong Box - A brief and creepy tale. Not scary. Nice writing about the trials of a ship at sea in "challenging" weather. A la Conrad ...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Have only read the scratching introduction so far. All about chess, checkers, whist and ??????? Finished last night. I knew the solution because I'd seen the Karl Malden film version with a guy in a gorilla(oran-utan) suit. I might have seem the Bela Lugosi one too. M. Dupin is very Sherlockian ... before Sherlock.
The Purloined Letter - More from EAP about how to think super-logically(like M. Dupin). This one continues the Sherlocky stuff nicely. I read this one not too long ago, perhaps in "Fiction 101" ???
Ms. Found in a Bottle - A fantastic seagoing tale and much fun to read. Links to Coleridge and Conrad.
The Oval Portrait - A short short story with a philosophical message.
Berenice - Another buried alive tale(can't these Poe people find some way to verify that someone is REALLY dead before they go and bury them????) with a gruesome twist. I think I might've read this one before.
A Descent into the Maelstrom - Another intense, Conradian sea-tale, this time about a very real place in Norway. I looked it up in my Nat. Geo. World Atlas. The opening of it took me back to an unnerving experience I had while mountain- hiking in Colorado many years ago. Think you've had stressful experiences? Read this story!
Thou Art the Man - An amusing, if incredible, whodunit tale in which the reader suspects strongly(and correctly) all along who the killer really is. The fun is in the explanation at the end - ingenious!
Mystification - another amusing, lightweight tale of a boorish fool being made fun of and not understanding AT ALL. Good stuff by the ironic Mr. Poe.
The Imp of the Perverse - Introduction - This is a stand-alone piece, actually, and quite amusing and interesting. It's fun to read this stuff aloud and doing that will help in the understanding of it as well. Poe can be clear as a bell, if somewhat convoluted/archaic when he so chooses. At times he himself becomes a bit perverse and writes in such a baroque style that it becomes harder to read and difficult to comprehend!
The Imp of the Perverse - Another killer who can't keep his mouth shut a la "The Tell-Tale Heart."
The Premature Burial - A tale perversely both humorous and scary.
William Wilson(plus introduction) - An odd-one about a guy with a split personality(I think).
Ligeia - Filmed as "The Tomb of Ligeia" ... Creepy-crawly ghost story a bit reminiscent of "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
Morella - Another entertaining tale that dances around the same supernatural and death-focused flames of many preceding stories. I only read one a night lest I get bored with the sameness of them. The writing is always a treat but Poe's narrators are ALL tormented, unbalanced men. Like the author, I suppose!
Shadow: a Parable - more death mysteries ...
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - all about the afterlife. I really enjoyed this one.
Silence - More of that impressively fantastic and imaginative prose. An inspiration to Lovecraft I assume.
Poems - all the big hits are here.
No problem rating this book a solid 4* though I do believe that people make the mistake of taking Poe too seriously. He can be pretty funny!
June 12, 2021
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Un libro con un contenido monumental y magn铆fico que deber铆a estar en la biblioteca de todo amante, no solo del terror, sino de la literatura en general. Todos los cuentos que conocemos y alabamos, m谩s algunos quiz谩 no tan conocidos por el gran p煤blico, se incluyen en esta s煤per recomendable antolog铆a propuesta por los especialistas Penguin Cl谩sicos .鈦�
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Al ser un libro tan abarcador y por ende voluminoso, quiz谩 al lector ocasional, o tambi茅n al que se acerca por primera vez al autor, le pueda parecer un poco frustrante su lectura. A ellos les recomiendo leerlo de a poco, incluso leer primero los cuentos m谩s conocidos y que est谩n presentes en la cultura popular, y luego si, sucumbir ante la obra completa de nuestro querido y atormentado Edgar Allan Poe.鈦�
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La presente edici贸n de esta antolog铆a fue publicada en el a帽o 2016 por la editorial Penguin Cl谩sicos. La misma incluye 70 cuentos escritos por Poe (cada uno de ellos con una nota previa con mucha informaci贸n sobre el cuento), una excelente introducci贸n del especialista en la obra de Poe, Profesor Thomas Ollive Mabbot (1898-1968), una cronolog铆a detallada de la vida del autor, dos introducciones escritas por Poe para El Club Del Folio y Cuentos De Lo Grotesco y Lo Arabesco respectivamente, y por 煤ltimo, dos interesant铆simos prefacios escritos por Charles Baudelaire para sus selecciones de cuentos de Poe editados y traducidos por 茅l mismo al idioma franc茅s.鈦�
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Un libro con un contenido monumental y magn铆fico que deber铆a estar en la biblioteca de todo amante, no solo del terror, sino de la literatura en general. Todos los cuentos que conocemos y alabamos, m谩s algunos quiz谩 no tan conocidos por el gran p煤blico, se incluyen en esta s煤per recomendable antolog铆a propuesta por los especialistas Penguin Cl谩sicos .鈦�
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Al ser un libro tan abarcador y por ende voluminoso, quiz谩 al lector ocasional, o tambi茅n al que se acerca por primera vez al autor, le pueda parecer un poco frustrante su lectura. A ellos les recomiendo leerlo de a poco, incluso leer primero los cuentos m谩s conocidos y que est谩n presentes en la cultura popular, y luego si, sucumbir ante la obra completa de nuestro querido y atormentado Edgar Allan Poe.鈦�
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November 17, 2016
En este libro se puede disfrutar de lo que creo son todos los cuentos (67) de este genio del relato corto.
No solo hay cuentos de terror, que es quiz谩s por lo que m谩s se le conozca a Poe. Tambi茅n encontramos temas sobre el pasado y el futuro, sobre la metaf铆sica o la presencia de lo sobrenatural. Los hay mejores y peores, como es natural, pero en general ninguno defrauda. Muy recomendable.
Puntuaci贸n: 8
964 pag.
No solo hay cuentos de terror, que es quiz谩s por lo que m谩s se le conozca a Poe. Tambi茅n encontramos temas sobre el pasado y el futuro, sobre la metaf铆sica o la presencia de lo sobrenatural. Los hay mejores y peores, como es natural, pero en general ninguno defrauda. Muy recomendable.
Puntuaci贸n: 8
964 pag.
October 18, 2015
This guy. THIS guy.
August 24, 2022
Son 67 relatos de todo tipo: terror, detectivesco, humor y hasta filos贸ficos, hay aut茅nticas obras maestras y algunos que son algo densos, esta edici贸n contiene comentarios introductorios para cada relato, algunos muy enriquecedores, incluye la biograf铆a de Poe por Cort谩zar. En general la edici贸n es buena pero pudo ser mejor si incluyeran pies de p谩gina ya que hay varias citas en franc茅s, lat铆n y hasta griego, as铆 como otras relativas a la traducci贸n (Cort谩zar se tom贸 algunas licencias). Ha sido una relectura -los m谩s conocidos- y un feliz descubrimiento de otros, en especial los humor铆sticos, tard茅 varios meses en terminarlo pero vali贸 la pena cada minuto, ahora quiero m谩s de Poe.
March 10, 2021
Mi hanno chiamato pazzo; ma nessuno ancora ha potuto stabilire se la pazzia sia o non sia la pi霉 elevata forma d'intelligenza, se la maggior parte di ci貌 che 猫 glorioso, se tutto ci貌 che 猫 profondo non derivi da una malattia del pensiero, da umori esaltati della mente a spese dell'intelletto generale.禄
Questo libro appartiene alla mia libreria da tantissimo tempo e gli sono affezionata.
Una raccolta dei racconti del controverso genio della letteratura americana.
Re peste, Berenice, Eleonora, la caduta della casa Usher, I delitti della Rue Morgue e tanti altri.
Un classico da leggere e rileggere nel corso della propria vita, per farsi un'opinione personale di questo figlio d'artisti che difficilmente poteva affrancarsi da un destino di eccessi ma anche di grande talento.
"Nella mia infanzia mostrai di avere ereditato questi caratteri di famiglia; discendo da una razza che si 猫 sempre distinta per immaginazione e temperamento facilmente eccitabile鈥β�
Questo libro appartiene alla mia libreria da tantissimo tempo e gli sono affezionata.
Una raccolta dei racconti del controverso genio della letteratura americana.
Re peste, Berenice, Eleonora, la caduta della casa Usher, I delitti della Rue Morgue e tanti altri.
Un classico da leggere e rileggere nel corso della propria vita, per farsi un'opinione personale di questo figlio d'artisti che difficilmente poteva affrancarsi da un destino di eccessi ma anche di grande talento.
"Nella mia infanzia mostrai di avere ereditato questi caratteri di famiglia; discendo da una razza che si 猫 sempre distinta per immaginazione e temperamento facilmente eccitabile鈥β�
March 29, 2020
Este libre me sorprendi贸 much铆simo la verdad si puedo decir que Poe si es el maestro de la descripci贸n y terror psicol贸gico de su 茅poca altamente recomendado de los cuentos que m谩s me gustaron fue:
1.- entierro prematuro.
2.---Berenice.
3.- Coraz贸n delator.
4.--Escarabajo de oro.
5.- El gato negro.
6.-El pozo y el p茅ndulo.
7.--Revelacion mesmerica.
8.--Ligeia
Entre muchos otros m谩s..... altamente recomendado.
1.- entierro prematuro.
2.---Berenice.
3.- Coraz贸n delator.
4.--Escarabajo de oro.
5.- El gato negro.
6.-El pozo y el p茅ndulo.
7.--Revelacion mesmerica.
8.--Ligeia
Entre muchos otros m谩s..... altamente recomendado.
October 28, 2021
Cuentos cl谩sicos de terror del gran Edgan Allan Poe.
Los le铆 por Halloween, y me sorprend铆 de la calidad de sus textos, as铆 de sus historias, y como han sido adaptadas hasta la saciedad.
Maravilloso.
Los le铆 por Halloween, y me sorprend铆 de la calidad de sus textos, as铆 de sus historias, y como han sido adaptadas hasta la saciedad.
Maravilloso.
May 2, 2016
Llegar a conocer la obra de Poe es como descubrir un c谩liz sagrado, y aquel que se atreve a cruzar ese caudal desmesurado de genialidad no sale indemne. Famoso por sus cuentos de terror, Allan Poe, sabe llevar al lector por las distintas emociones; desde la hiel del terror hasta el humor sarc谩stico siempre salpicado por esa naturaleza imperfecta del ser humano. Su intelectualidad desborda cada l铆nea de sus relatos llevando el genero del "cuento" a otro nivel donde pocos han podido llegar. Es y seguir谩 siendo inspiraci贸n para muchos y un referente ineludible para las futuras generaciones de escritores. Vale la pena destacar la edici贸n de la editorial P谩ginas de espuma que con esta traducci贸n de Cort谩zar y los pr贸logos de Carlos Fuentes y Mario Vargas Llosa ( estandartes de "boom latinoamericano" ) adem谩s de otras colaboraciones, lograron crear un ejemplar que vale la pena conservar para leer una y otra vez.
September 1, 2024
Sui racconti di Edgar Allan Poe nulla da dire, 猫 realmente il maestro dell'occulto.
Egli ci porta a conoscere le innumerevoli sfaccettature dell鈥檃ngoscia, i modi per calarsi in quell鈥檌gnoto, ancestrale pozzo, che 猫 la paura.
Egli ci porta a conoscere le innumerevoli sfaccettature dell鈥檃ngoscia, i modi per calarsi in quell鈥檌gnoto, ancestrale pozzo, che 猫 la paura.
August 25, 2015
Love you Poe ;)
January 2, 2019
Algunos excelentes, otros muy buenos y muchos francamente mediocres. Es lo que pasa cuando uno lee las obras completas de un autor
March 27, 2022
En lugar de esta edici贸n recomendar铆a otra de esas muchas "Obras selectas" que contienen 煤nicamente lo mejor del autor. Hay muchos cuentos que al momento de ser publicados pudieron ser interesantes pero hoy en d铆a resultan bastante anticuados.
May 29, 2022
Esta re lectura, con esta traducci贸n ha sido sumamente placentera. Realmente, ciertos relatos de Poe han plasmado y forjado terrores en el inconsciente colectivo.
Esta edici贸n es hermosa.
Esta edici贸n es hermosa.
October 28, 2013
This collection was really hit or miss for me. Many of Poe's most famous works are fun to read, but there was little here that changed my life. I've had many friends say they found Poe when they were in their angsty teens and that he was a breath of fresh air for the, so maybe I just came to explore him too late. I can totally appreciate his influence on modern literature, but many of his stories were too simplistic. In most cases, they were little more than anecdotes.
A few of them stood out to me, like "The Angel of the Odd." In many cases, his stories were thinly veiled covers for philosophical treatises, which got me wondering if one could pull that off today.
The best surprise for me was "William Wilson," as story I'd never heard of before but quite enjoyed. And of course, "The Raven" is always a classic.
A few of them stood out to me, like "The Angel of the Odd." In many cases, his stories were thinly veiled covers for philosophical treatises, which got me wondering if one could pull that off today.
The best surprise for me was "William Wilson," as story I'd never heard of before but quite enjoyed. And of course, "The Raven" is always a classic.
July 4, 2020
Sin duda, la mejor edici贸n de los cuentos completos de POE en espa帽ol. La traducci贸n de
es una obra maestra, aplaudida y celebrada como la mejor de todos los tiempos. Esta edici贸n contiene adem谩s sendos pr贸logos de
y
, y adem谩s, cada uno de los cuentos trae una introducci贸n escrita por reconocidos escritores de habla hispana, entre los que destacan
y
... 驴que m谩s podemos pedir? Altamente Recomendable
October 28, 2020
"Se ha apoderado de mi alma un sentimiento que no tengo palabras para expresar, una sensaci贸n que se resiste al an谩lisis, que no encuentra traducci贸n posible en los l茅xicos pret茅ritos y cuya clave me temo mucho no pueda descifrarse en lo por venir (...) A mi alma se ha incorporado un nuevo sentimiento, una nueva entidad."
Una parte de mi alma siempre ser谩 de sus palabras.
Una parte de mi alma siempre ser谩 de sus palabras.
May 10, 2025
Cuando era peque帽o, de unos 11 a帽os aproximadamente, para mi materia de espa帽ol tuve que leer El Gato Negro y desde entonces he le铆do y releido infinidad de veces y en diferentes ediciones y traducciones los cuentos, poemas, relatos detectivescos y reflexiones de Poe.
Si bien algunos se hacen un poco pesados por la cantidad de vueltas que dan para llegar a un punto final, creo que eso es algo que tambi茅n destaca del autor y su prosa, aparte del lenguaje cient铆fico, las referencias (o autoreferencias) a otras obras o art铆culos y como en medio de lo ins贸lito, tenebroso y lo complejos que eran sus cuentos, lograba colar sutilmente (o no tanto) partes de su turbulenta pero interesante vida personal.
Tengo que admitir que la pas茅 incre铆ble estos meses que estuve leyendo este primer tomo, pues con la cantidad de temas religiosos, fantasiosos, de salud mental, de dualidad, de cr铆tica y en general de asombro y temor por lo que supone el ser humano y lo desconocido, parece que cada vez que leo algo de Poe parece haber algo m谩s all铆.
En unos meses leer茅 el tomo 2 y dar茅 mi opini贸n. Por ahora mis favoritos de este tomo fueron:
Manuscrito hallado en una botella
Sombra
Silencio
Berenice
El rey peste
El diablo en el campanario
El hundimiento de la casa de Usher
William Wilson
El hombre de la multitud
Los cr铆menes de la Rue Morgue
Un descenso dentro del Maelstrom
La isla del hada
Nunca apuestes tu cabeza al diablo
El retrato ovalado
La m谩scara de la muerte roja
El pozo y el p茅ndulo.
Si bien algunos se hacen un poco pesados por la cantidad de vueltas que dan para llegar a un punto final, creo que eso es algo que tambi茅n destaca del autor y su prosa, aparte del lenguaje cient铆fico, las referencias (o autoreferencias) a otras obras o art铆culos y como en medio de lo ins贸lito, tenebroso y lo complejos que eran sus cuentos, lograba colar sutilmente (o no tanto) partes de su turbulenta pero interesante vida personal.
Tengo que admitir que la pas茅 incre铆ble estos meses que estuve leyendo este primer tomo, pues con la cantidad de temas religiosos, fantasiosos, de salud mental, de dualidad, de cr铆tica y en general de asombro y temor por lo que supone el ser humano y lo desconocido, parece que cada vez que leo algo de Poe parece haber algo m谩s all铆.
En unos meses leer茅 el tomo 2 y dar茅 mi opini贸n. Por ahora mis favoritos de este tomo fueron:
Manuscrito hallado en una botella
Sombra
Silencio
Berenice
El rey peste
El diablo en el campanario
El hundimiento de la casa de Usher
William Wilson
El hombre de la multitud
Los cr铆menes de la Rue Morgue
Un descenso dentro del Maelstrom
La isla del hada
Nunca apuestes tu cabeza al diablo
El retrato ovalado
La m谩scara de la muerte roja
El pozo y el p茅ndulo.
June 13, 2018
Poco se puede decir de la barbaridad que representa la obra de Edgar Allan Poe. Su genio y miseria, aspectos indisolubles de su vida, se catapultan hasta pronunciarse sobre los miedos y experiencias lim铆trofes m谩s aterradoras de la vida humana. Ya dec铆a Baudelaire en su sentido homenaje al norteamericano que la obra de Poe reflexionaba sobre la belleza como un atributo susceptible de alcanzarse tanto en la naturaleza como en la creaci贸n humana. De la mano de lo anterior, el mismo Poe afirma en "La posesi贸n de Arnheim o el pasaje hacia el jard铆n" que, para alcanzar la felicidad, se deben observar cuatro condiciones: 1) el ejercicio al aire libre; 2) el amor a la mujer; 3) el desprecio por la ambici贸n; 4) el cultivo de la poes铆a o la belleza (p谩g.1104). En cierto modo, sus cuentos logran condensar todas estas preocupaciones y la posibilidad de su negaci贸n-sin desconocer otras igualmente importantes como la fortuna y su injerencia en la vida, el humor, la palabra y su potencia, etc-.
De hecho, tal vez sea m谩s preciso se帽alar que los cuentos de Poe presentan, sobre todo, la imposibilidad de ser part铆cipes de la felicidad. A diferencia de sus poemas, el personaje de los cuentos de Poe suele ser un sujeto atormentado por los nervios, en los extremos de la locura, sometido a la historia inmediatamente vivida que s贸lo puede ser narrada, como un impulso furioso en el que la vida se aloja antes de perder la posibilidad de su sosiego. En algunos casos, es el amor y su carencia la que se esgrime con plena potencia: "Morella", "Ligeia", "Berenice" y "Eleonora" son muestras de la p茅rdida del sentido de la vida misma a partir del hecho de saberse solo...de perderse la posibilidad de compartir la vida con el ser amado. En otros casos, Poe se vale de im谩genes lim铆trofes, aleg贸ricas, en las que la muerte nos recuerda que es nuestra 煤ltima posibilidad: tal es el caso de cuentos como "El rey Peste", "La m谩scara de la muerte roja" (el cuento m谩s bestial de Poe a mi juicio), "Hop-Frog" (otra barbaridad literaria), "Metzengerstein", "El hundimiento de la casa Usher" (estos dos 煤ltimos cuentos son preciosos en su composici贸n y alegor铆a), los di谩logos plat贸nicos, "El gato negro" y "El coraz贸n delator". En cada uno de estos casos, Poe se permite hilvanar la catastrofe y la serena muerte como 煤nicas posibilidades de la experiencia humana; m谩s all谩 de los breves intervalos en los que la felicidad pareciera ser el hecho mismo de la existencia. A mi juicio, son en estos dos conjuntos de cuentos donde sale a relucir el talante literario del escritor norteamericano: escritos con cincel sobre m谩rmol, sus palabras son las del artesano que, reconociendo su talento, no se permite deslumbrarse por el mismo; sino que se esfuerza en la medida de sus posibilidades por pulir su arte. Desde el mismo prop贸sito narrativo de Poe, que no era otro que el de hacer cuentos en los que cada oraci贸n contribu铆a a un afecto que deb铆a ser constitutivo de la narraci贸n misma, se entrev茅 la necesidad de ser cuidadoso con cada oraci贸n y palabra. De all铆 que no sorprenda el af谩n del norteamericano por retocar cada uno de sus relatos, cuando no de reescribirlos directamente.
Especial menci贸n cobran los relatos de aventura y los detectivescos: desde el viaje en globo y "El escarabajo dorado", pasando por "El viaje al Maelstrom" y el "Manuscrito hallado en una botella", Poe se permite mostrar sus dotes de narrador a la par que manifiesta su sensibilidad ante la naturaleza misma. Sobre los cuentos de Dupin, resta decir que "Los cr铆menes de la calle Morgue" sigue siendo de lo mejor de los relatos detectivescos.
Lean a Poe. Sin importar edad, ni momento de la vida, ni nada. Aqu铆 est谩 la belleza del que supo ver su vida apagada por la miseria.
De hecho, tal vez sea m谩s preciso se帽alar que los cuentos de Poe presentan, sobre todo, la imposibilidad de ser part铆cipes de la felicidad. A diferencia de sus poemas, el personaje de los cuentos de Poe suele ser un sujeto atormentado por los nervios, en los extremos de la locura, sometido a la historia inmediatamente vivida que s贸lo puede ser narrada, como un impulso furioso en el que la vida se aloja antes de perder la posibilidad de su sosiego. En algunos casos, es el amor y su carencia la que se esgrime con plena potencia: "Morella", "Ligeia", "Berenice" y "Eleonora" son muestras de la p茅rdida del sentido de la vida misma a partir del hecho de saberse solo...de perderse la posibilidad de compartir la vida con el ser amado. En otros casos, Poe se vale de im谩genes lim铆trofes, aleg贸ricas, en las que la muerte nos recuerda que es nuestra 煤ltima posibilidad: tal es el caso de cuentos como "El rey Peste", "La m谩scara de la muerte roja" (el cuento m谩s bestial de Poe a mi juicio), "Hop-Frog" (otra barbaridad literaria), "Metzengerstein", "El hundimiento de la casa Usher" (estos dos 煤ltimos cuentos son preciosos en su composici贸n y alegor铆a), los di谩logos plat贸nicos, "El gato negro" y "El coraz贸n delator". En cada uno de estos casos, Poe se permite hilvanar la catastrofe y la serena muerte como 煤nicas posibilidades de la experiencia humana; m谩s all谩 de los breves intervalos en los que la felicidad pareciera ser el hecho mismo de la existencia. A mi juicio, son en estos dos conjuntos de cuentos donde sale a relucir el talante literario del escritor norteamericano: escritos con cincel sobre m谩rmol, sus palabras son las del artesano que, reconociendo su talento, no se permite deslumbrarse por el mismo; sino que se esfuerza en la medida de sus posibilidades por pulir su arte. Desde el mismo prop贸sito narrativo de Poe, que no era otro que el de hacer cuentos en los que cada oraci贸n contribu铆a a un afecto que deb铆a ser constitutivo de la narraci贸n misma, se entrev茅 la necesidad de ser cuidadoso con cada oraci贸n y palabra. De all铆 que no sorprenda el af谩n del norteamericano por retocar cada uno de sus relatos, cuando no de reescribirlos directamente.
Especial menci贸n cobran los relatos de aventura y los detectivescos: desde el viaje en globo y "El escarabajo dorado", pasando por "El viaje al Maelstrom" y el "Manuscrito hallado en una botella", Poe se permite mostrar sus dotes de narrador a la par que manifiesta su sensibilidad ante la naturaleza misma. Sobre los cuentos de Dupin, resta decir que "Los cr铆menes de la calle Morgue" sigue siendo de lo mejor de los relatos detectivescos.
Lean a Poe. Sin importar edad, ni momento de la vida, ni nada. Aqu铆 est谩 la belleza del que supo ver su vida apagada por la miseria.
May 23, 2017
*Listened to Audiobook*
I remember loving Poe's novellas when I read a few of them separately as a teenager. They were dark and twisted and it was right up my alley.
I could not finish this. Either I've grown into a snob, or these novellas, once read back to back in an anthology, all sound the same and lose their collective - and individual - magic.
Same kind of narrator (story told at the first person, a male who leaves a journal or a letter claiming he hasn't lost his mind, etc), same kind of story/mystery, same kind of ending... I'm sorry Edgar, but reading a collection of your novellas is not very flattering to your writing because it's as though you've kept using the same recipe over and over and it's utterly boring.
So sad Poe has lost his mojo in my eyes. I wish I could love those tales like before, but I guess now it's too late for that... Shame.
I remember loving Poe's novellas when I read a few of them separately as a teenager. They were dark and twisted and it was right up my alley.
I could not finish this. Either I've grown into a snob, or these novellas, once read back to back in an anthology, all sound the same and lose their collective - and individual - magic.
Same kind of narrator (story told at the first person, a male who leaves a journal or a letter claiming he hasn't lost his mind, etc), same kind of story/mystery, same kind of ending... I'm sorry Edgar, but reading a collection of your novellas is not very flattering to your writing because it's as though you've kept using the same recipe over and over and it's utterly boring.
So sad Poe has lost his mojo in my eyes. I wish I could love those tales like before, but I guess now it's too late for that... Shame.
January 30, 2023
Poe sometimes quotes other languages without providing English translations, so it's a good idea to have your phone handy while reading to translate for you. He sometimes blanks out the year or character names for some reason. I also noticed he uses lots of adverbs. (Supposedly, good writers don't use a lot of adverbs, but I'm not convinced that's true.)
The narrators of his stories often go unnamed. I wonder if this is because the reader is supposed to think Poe is the viewpoint character? This seems especially likely in stories where the narrator's name is given as P. or P__. Some of his narrators marry their cousins, like Poe himself did.
Most of his female characters get killed off either by murder or illness. It's interesting that he considers blood letting to be good for one's health, but I guess that was a common belief at the time. Doppelgangers, mesmerism, and being buried alive are frequent themes, as well as hot air balloons, surprisingly. I was also surprised upon a reread by how much he's against democracy (he considers it to be mob rule).
His sole completed novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is an adventure novel with mutiny on the high seas, a ghost ship, cannibalism, shark attacks, a polar bear attack, savage natives, and a mysterious new land found near the South Pole. A lot of things about the story don't make sense, such as the natives being afraid of the color white, Pym faithfully copying down marks on a wall that he thinks are naturally occurring, him forgetting that he has a dog, him forgetting they have a way to get food until after resorting to cannibalism, or him wanting to continue adventuring instead of going home after all the harrowing things that happened to him. It's pretty racist, there are no female characters, and it drags at times, so I can't really recommend it.
His writing hasn't aged well in regards to his depiction of women, Native Americans, the Dutch, Jews, and Black people. He also ridicules people for being fat or short, or having big butts. However, some of his stories still manage to hold up. I'd say his best stories are Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ligeia, The Assignation, William Wilson, Berenice, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death. Honorable mentions go to The Black Cat, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Cask of Amontillado, Metzengerstein, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Some think of Murders in the Rue Morgue as the first detective story, however E.T.A. Hoffman's Mademoiselle de Scuderi is decades earlier. Nevertheless, Poe's detective at least predates Sherlock Holmes.
The narrator starts by comparing draughts, chess, and whist and says cards require more analytical skill. His friend Dupin uses deductive reasoning to correctly guess what he was thinking about as they walk down the street, showing off his analytical skills.
The two of them learn of a particularly gruesome double murder in the newspaper. One victim was strangled and stuffed up a chimney, while the other victim was decapitated inside a locked room. Gold was left behind, so robbery wasn't the motive. Dupin thinks the police can't see the forest by focusing too much on the trees. Since he owes a favor to the accused, and knows the Prefect of Police, he decides to look into the murders himself.听I like that he points out how often coincidences happen without people noticing. One of Poe's best stories.
The Black Cat
In The Black Cat, a man who loves animals becomes alcoholic and physically abuses his wife and his pets. He cuts one of his cat's eyes open, then hangs it from a tree just because he knows it's wrong, like when a person breaks a law just for the sake of breaking it.
His house then burns down and the only wall still standing has the figure of a hanged cat upon it. He adopts another black cat with one eye which he grows to loathe because it adores him. A patch of white hair on the cat resemble the gallows. He fears to abuse this cat.
After the cat almost trips him down the stairs, however, he tries to kill it with an axe. His wife stops him and he kills her instead. He walls her body up, but the police find it due to the wailing of the cat that was walled up with her. Reminiscent of The Tell-Tale Heart, but this story is better because there's more to it.
Ligeia
In Ligeia, a man reflects upon his dead wife. He realizes he doesn't know her patronymic or remember exactly how they met, only that he was madly in love with her. She was the most beautiful woman ever and stepped so lightly he couldn't hear her footfalls. There's something mysterious about her eyes he can't quite put his finger on. They are larger than normal, but there's more to it than that. She was more learned than anybody he knew. Although placid, she possessed a fierce energy.
As she neared death from an illness, she professed her love for her husband. She writes a really good poem about the Conqueror Worm. She attempts to resist death through force of will, but dies anyway.听He grieves her loss and uses part of his fortune to refurbish an abbey. Then he marries Lady Rowena. He hates his new wife as he's still in love with the former. He becomes an opium addict.听His second wife gets sick and thinks she sees and hears things. He thinks it's just the demonic decorations on the drapes blowing in the wind. She dies. Her body is reanimated, but it is Ligeia, not Rowena. The story ends there and I can't help wonder what happens next. In my opinion, this is one of Poe's best stories.
The Assignation
In Venice, a child slips from its mother's arms and falls from a window into a canal. A stranger rescues the child and our narrator gives him a ride home in his gondola. The mother is the Marchesa Aphrodite. The stranger has a painting of her and seems to be pining a lost love. They both poison themselves. This story ends abruptly, but I like that it doesn't overexplain. The prose is exquisite, making it one of my favorites.
Ms. Found in a Bottle
During a storm, our narrator is thrown from his ship and winds up in another. The crew either can't see him or don't acknowledge him. They're all old and speak an unknown language. They're headed to the South Pole.听
William Wilson
William Wilson (not his real name)听attends a boarding school where all his classmates defer to him except for one who has the same first and last name as him. They both started school the same day and were also born on the same day. They were rivals, but also friends.
Wilson takes advantage of the other Wilson's inability to speak louder than a whisper with practical jokes and the other Wilson retaliates in kind. Wilson hates that others think they're related, so the other Wilson, who is already physically similar, dresses, acts, and speaks like him (at least, as well as he can in his whisper voice.) No one else realizes his impersonation but our narrator.
Wilson changes schools. Years later, at Oxford, he's winning at cards when someone enters the room and reveals he's cheating. Wilson leaves Oxford, but the other Wilson follows him around the world, stopping him from doing great harm. Wilson eventually challenges the other Wilson to a duel and kills him, but the other Wilson says he's also killed himself for they have the same face.听Is Wilson his conscience? A long-lost twin? Someone who coincidentally looks like him? I love that it's not spelled out.
Berenice
"Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been."
Egaeus has a memory of existing before his birth. His cousin/fianc茅 Berenice used to be vivacious, but disease changed her. She's no longer as beautiful and goes into trances.听Egaeus has a disease that makes him focus for hours on small details like a shadow, or flame, or a scent, or a word. He becomes obsessed with her teeth. She dies of epilepsy.听He experiences amnesia, only later realizing that he dug up her grave and took her teeth. Also, she was still alive.听What a messed up ending! I love it.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Our narrator visits his friend Roderick Usher. The House of Usher itself gives him the creeps. Roderick has wasted away much since our narrator last saw him. Roderick's malady involves sensory overload. He's only comfortable in the dimmest light and only enjoys bland food. Most sounds and smells disgust him. He lives in fear and hasn't left his house in years.
His twin sister Madeline is his last living relative. She is gravely ill and soon dies. Fearing grave robbers, Usher intends to intern her body in a vault inside the house for a fortnight before final burial.
Usher believes his house is sentient. One night, a storm rages outside and a strange light is seen. Our narrator reads a story about a knight and a dragon. Coincidentally, when he reads a passage about noise, he hears a similar noise in real life. It turns out Madeline was buried alive. She has just enough energy to collapse upon her twin who also dies. Narrator runs from the house, which is utterly destroyed by the storm.听
The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor wants revenge against Fortunato, but doesn't specify why. It's carnival season in Italy, so Fortunato is dressed like a motley fool with bells on his cap. Montresor wears a black mask.听There's some funny moments such as the mason/masonry joke. Montresor uses reverse psychology on both Fortunato (tells him the catacombs are too damp, they should leave, which makes him press on) and his servants (tells them to not leave the house knowing they will.) Unlike the narrators in many of Poe's other stories, this murderer gets away with it. A good story, but it felt too short.
Metzengerstein
In Hungary, two families were hostile to each other: Metzengerstein and Berlifitzing. Frederick, Baron Metzengerstein, upon his inheritance at 18, engaged in all sorts of debaucheries. The castle of his rival, Wilhelm Count Berlifitzing, catches fire.听The Baron looks at a tapestry, and to his surprise, the horse moves when he looks away. Going outside, he sees the same horse which seemed to come from Berlifitzing's stables, but they say the horse isn't theirs. A portion of the tapestry is suddenly missing. The Count dies in the fire. The Baron becomes obsessed with the horse and shuns all social engagements only to ride. His palace catches fire one night while he was riding. The horse takes him into the burning palace and he's unable to stop it. I don't remember reading this story before, a pleasant surprise.
The Masque of the Red Death
A pestilence called the Red Death causes sharp pain, dizziness, bleeding from the pores, and then death in half an hour.听Prince Prospero summons a thousand friends to seclude themselves in one of his estates, welding the gates shut to prevent anyone from coming or going. It's well-provisioned and there's much entertainment to wait out the plague.听After a few months, the prince throws a masked ball. He sets up seven rooms with no light inside. Each has light from outside shining through a stained glass window, giving each room a different tint. Few dare set foot inside the black room with the blood red window. There's a black clock in the room that agitates everyone every time it strikes the hour.
At the stroke of midnight, the guests notice a masked figure they hadn't noticed before which fills them with horror and disgust. The figure is dressed like a corpse who succumbed to the Red Death. Angry, Prospero orders the figure to be unmasked and hanged at sunrise, but none dare approach. Wielding a knife, Prospero charges at the figure himself, but falls down dead. The revelers remove the costume, but there's no one underneath. They all die, as does the clock. One of Poe's best. This story actually gave me chills when I was reading it.
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Our narrator is a mesmerist named P__. (Poe?) He wants to see if mesmerism at the point of death will extend life, so he mesmerizes Valdemar upon his death bed. He lives longer than expected in a peaceful sleep and he's able to respond to questions by talking in his sleep. He then dies, but continues speaking. They leave him in this state for months. They finally awaken him from the trance and his body immediately decomposes into liquid.
Poe's most famous for his horror stories, but he also wrote detective fiction, science fiction, philosophical dialogues, essays, and quite a lot of humor. I don't think his humor holds up for the most part, but his funniest stories are the darkly humorous How to Write a Blackwood Article, Loss of Breath, and Never Bet the Devil Your Head.
How to Write a Blackwood Article
This may be Poe's only story told from a woman's point of view, but he does it to make fun of literary women. Poe seems to make fun of the way he himself writes as well with advice to write about macabre topics, focus on sensation, and throw in obscure references and foreign phrases to make yourself seem erudite.
Signora Psyche Zenobia (Suky Snobbs) is advised to almost die somehow and focus on the sensations of the experience so her article will be realistic. She's advised to avoid talking about something directly and to always use insinuations. She follows all the advice she's been given and writes a story titled A Predicament.
The story humorously changes styles between laconic, overwrought, and melancholy. It's amusingly repetitious. However, there are also offensive descriptions of her negro servant. It's funny when she gets the allusions and foreign phrases wrong. She describes climbing a single step as if it's epic. Her dog understands English and she can speak German. She gets her head stuck in a clock tower and nearly gets decapitated by the minute hand. Her eye pops out of her head and looks at her with insolence. Her head is cut off and she wonders whether the head or the body is the real her. Pretty funny.
Loss of Breath
While calling his wife names and yelling at her the day after their wedding, Mr. Lackobreath loses his breath and can only speak in guttural tones. Taking a coach to the city, a fat man falls asleep on him, dislocating all his limbs. Thinking him dead because he has no breath, he's thrown out of the coach. It runs over him, breaking both his arms and his trunk is thrown out, breaking his skull. A doctor begins dissecting him, then leaves for dinner. Lackobreath escapes, but gets mistaken for a prisoner headed to the gallows. He puts on such a good show twitching at the end of the rope, the crowd calls for an encore. He's put in a public vault and checks out the corpses. Fat-shames one, then criticizes a thin corpse who objects. His neighbor Mr. Windenough was also mistaken for dead after he caught someone else's breath. He gets his breath back and they escape. Hilarious dark humor.
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
When he was an infant, Toby Dammit's mother beat him until he was as black as an African, but unfortunately, she was left-handed so instead of beating evil out of him, she beat evil into him.听By the time he was one year old, he had a moustache and cursed. He refused to sign the Temperance pledge, etc. He liked to bet the devil his head until one day, the devil takes him up on it and he loses it. The homeopaths try to cure him, but unfortunately, he dies of his lost head a few days later. Pretty funny.
The narrators of his stories often go unnamed. I wonder if this is because the reader is supposed to think Poe is the viewpoint character? This seems especially likely in stories where the narrator's name is given as P. or P__. Some of his narrators marry their cousins, like Poe himself did.
Most of his female characters get killed off either by murder or illness. It's interesting that he considers blood letting to be good for one's health, but I guess that was a common belief at the time. Doppelgangers, mesmerism, and being buried alive are frequent themes, as well as hot air balloons, surprisingly. I was also surprised upon a reread by how much he's against democracy (he considers it to be mob rule).
His sole completed novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is an adventure novel with mutiny on the high seas, a ghost ship, cannibalism, shark attacks, a polar bear attack, savage natives, and a mysterious new land found near the South Pole. A lot of things about the story don't make sense, such as the natives being afraid of the color white, Pym faithfully copying down marks on a wall that he thinks are naturally occurring, him forgetting that he has a dog, him forgetting they have a way to get food until after resorting to cannibalism, or him wanting to continue adventuring instead of going home after all the harrowing things that happened to him. It's pretty racist, there are no female characters, and it drags at times, so I can't really recommend it.
His writing hasn't aged well in regards to his depiction of women, Native Americans, the Dutch, Jews, and Black people. He also ridicules people for being fat or short, or having big butts. However, some of his stories still manage to hold up. I'd say his best stories are Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ligeia, The Assignation, William Wilson, Berenice, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death. Honorable mentions go to The Black Cat, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Cask of Amontillado, Metzengerstein, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Some think of Murders in the Rue Morgue as the first detective story, however E.T.A. Hoffman's Mademoiselle de Scuderi is decades earlier. Nevertheless, Poe's detective at least predates Sherlock Holmes.
The narrator starts by comparing draughts, chess, and whist and says cards require more analytical skill. His friend Dupin uses deductive reasoning to correctly guess what he was thinking about as they walk down the street, showing off his analytical skills.
The two of them learn of a particularly gruesome double murder in the newspaper. One victim was strangled and stuffed up a chimney, while the other victim was decapitated inside a locked room. Gold was left behind, so robbery wasn't the motive. Dupin thinks the police can't see the forest by focusing too much on the trees. Since he owes a favor to the accused, and knows the Prefect of Police, he decides to look into the murders himself.听I like that he points out how often coincidences happen without people noticing. One of Poe's best stories.
The Black Cat
In The Black Cat, a man who loves animals becomes alcoholic and physically abuses his wife and his pets. He cuts one of his cat's eyes open, then hangs it from a tree just because he knows it's wrong, like when a person breaks a law just for the sake of breaking it.
His house then burns down and the only wall still standing has the figure of a hanged cat upon it. He adopts another black cat with one eye which he grows to loathe because it adores him. A patch of white hair on the cat resemble the gallows. He fears to abuse this cat.
After the cat almost trips him down the stairs, however, he tries to kill it with an axe. His wife stops him and he kills her instead. He walls her body up, but the police find it due to the wailing of the cat that was walled up with her. Reminiscent of The Tell-Tale Heart, but this story is better because there's more to it.
Ligeia
In Ligeia, a man reflects upon his dead wife. He realizes he doesn't know her patronymic or remember exactly how they met, only that he was madly in love with her. She was the most beautiful woman ever and stepped so lightly he couldn't hear her footfalls. There's something mysterious about her eyes he can't quite put his finger on. They are larger than normal, but there's more to it than that. She was more learned than anybody he knew. Although placid, she possessed a fierce energy.
As she neared death from an illness, she professed her love for her husband. She writes a really good poem about the Conqueror Worm. She attempts to resist death through force of will, but dies anyway.听He grieves her loss and uses part of his fortune to refurbish an abbey. Then he marries Lady Rowena. He hates his new wife as he's still in love with the former. He becomes an opium addict.听His second wife gets sick and thinks she sees and hears things. He thinks it's just the demonic decorations on the drapes blowing in the wind. She dies. Her body is reanimated, but it is Ligeia, not Rowena. The story ends there and I can't help wonder what happens next. In my opinion, this is one of Poe's best stories.
The Assignation
In Venice, a child slips from its mother's arms and falls from a window into a canal. A stranger rescues the child and our narrator gives him a ride home in his gondola. The mother is the Marchesa Aphrodite. The stranger has a painting of her and seems to be pining a lost love. They both poison themselves. This story ends abruptly, but I like that it doesn't overexplain. The prose is exquisite, making it one of my favorites.
Ms. Found in a Bottle
During a storm, our narrator is thrown from his ship and winds up in another. The crew either can't see him or don't acknowledge him. They're all old and speak an unknown language. They're headed to the South Pole.听
William Wilson
William Wilson (not his real name)听attends a boarding school where all his classmates defer to him except for one who has the same first and last name as him. They both started school the same day and were also born on the same day. They were rivals, but also friends.
Wilson takes advantage of the other Wilson's inability to speak louder than a whisper with practical jokes and the other Wilson retaliates in kind. Wilson hates that others think they're related, so the other Wilson, who is already physically similar, dresses, acts, and speaks like him (at least, as well as he can in his whisper voice.) No one else realizes his impersonation but our narrator.
Wilson changes schools. Years later, at Oxford, he's winning at cards when someone enters the room and reveals he's cheating. Wilson leaves Oxford, but the other Wilson follows him around the world, stopping him from doing great harm. Wilson eventually challenges the other Wilson to a duel and kills him, but the other Wilson says he's also killed himself for they have the same face.听Is Wilson his conscience? A long-lost twin? Someone who coincidentally looks like him? I love that it's not spelled out.
Berenice
"Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been."
Egaeus has a memory of existing before his birth. His cousin/fianc茅 Berenice used to be vivacious, but disease changed her. She's no longer as beautiful and goes into trances.听Egaeus has a disease that makes him focus for hours on small details like a shadow, or flame, or a scent, or a word. He becomes obsessed with her teeth. She dies of epilepsy.听He experiences amnesia, only later realizing that he dug up her grave and took her teeth. Also, she was still alive.听What a messed up ending! I love it.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Our narrator visits his friend Roderick Usher. The House of Usher itself gives him the creeps. Roderick has wasted away much since our narrator last saw him. Roderick's malady involves sensory overload. He's only comfortable in the dimmest light and only enjoys bland food. Most sounds and smells disgust him. He lives in fear and hasn't left his house in years.
His twin sister Madeline is his last living relative. She is gravely ill and soon dies. Fearing grave robbers, Usher intends to intern her body in a vault inside the house for a fortnight before final burial.
Usher believes his house is sentient. One night, a storm rages outside and a strange light is seen. Our narrator reads a story about a knight and a dragon. Coincidentally, when he reads a passage about noise, he hears a similar noise in real life. It turns out Madeline was buried alive. She has just enough energy to collapse upon her twin who also dies. Narrator runs from the house, which is utterly destroyed by the storm.听
The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor wants revenge against Fortunato, but doesn't specify why. It's carnival season in Italy, so Fortunato is dressed like a motley fool with bells on his cap. Montresor wears a black mask.听There's some funny moments such as the mason/masonry joke. Montresor uses reverse psychology on both Fortunato (tells him the catacombs are too damp, they should leave, which makes him press on) and his servants (tells them to not leave the house knowing they will.) Unlike the narrators in many of Poe's other stories, this murderer gets away with it. A good story, but it felt too short.
Metzengerstein
In Hungary, two families were hostile to each other: Metzengerstein and Berlifitzing. Frederick, Baron Metzengerstein, upon his inheritance at 18, engaged in all sorts of debaucheries. The castle of his rival, Wilhelm Count Berlifitzing, catches fire.听The Baron looks at a tapestry, and to his surprise, the horse moves when he looks away. Going outside, he sees the same horse which seemed to come from Berlifitzing's stables, but they say the horse isn't theirs. A portion of the tapestry is suddenly missing. The Count dies in the fire. The Baron becomes obsessed with the horse and shuns all social engagements only to ride. His palace catches fire one night while he was riding. The horse takes him into the burning palace and he's unable to stop it. I don't remember reading this story before, a pleasant surprise.
The Masque of the Red Death
A pestilence called the Red Death causes sharp pain, dizziness, bleeding from the pores, and then death in half an hour.听Prince Prospero summons a thousand friends to seclude themselves in one of his estates, welding the gates shut to prevent anyone from coming or going. It's well-provisioned and there's much entertainment to wait out the plague.听After a few months, the prince throws a masked ball. He sets up seven rooms with no light inside. Each has light from outside shining through a stained glass window, giving each room a different tint. Few dare set foot inside the black room with the blood red window. There's a black clock in the room that agitates everyone every time it strikes the hour.
At the stroke of midnight, the guests notice a masked figure they hadn't noticed before which fills them with horror and disgust. The figure is dressed like a corpse who succumbed to the Red Death. Angry, Prospero orders the figure to be unmasked and hanged at sunrise, but none dare approach. Wielding a knife, Prospero charges at the figure himself, but falls down dead. The revelers remove the costume, but there's no one underneath. They all die, as does the clock. One of Poe's best. This story actually gave me chills when I was reading it.
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Our narrator is a mesmerist named P__. (Poe?) He wants to see if mesmerism at the point of death will extend life, so he mesmerizes Valdemar upon his death bed. He lives longer than expected in a peaceful sleep and he's able to respond to questions by talking in his sleep. He then dies, but continues speaking. They leave him in this state for months. They finally awaken him from the trance and his body immediately decomposes into liquid.
Poe's most famous for his horror stories, but he also wrote detective fiction, science fiction, philosophical dialogues, essays, and quite a lot of humor. I don't think his humor holds up for the most part, but his funniest stories are the darkly humorous How to Write a Blackwood Article, Loss of Breath, and Never Bet the Devil Your Head.
How to Write a Blackwood Article
This may be Poe's only story told from a woman's point of view, but he does it to make fun of literary women. Poe seems to make fun of the way he himself writes as well with advice to write about macabre topics, focus on sensation, and throw in obscure references and foreign phrases to make yourself seem erudite.
Signora Psyche Zenobia (Suky Snobbs) is advised to almost die somehow and focus on the sensations of the experience so her article will be realistic. She's advised to avoid talking about something directly and to always use insinuations. She follows all the advice she's been given and writes a story titled A Predicament.
The story humorously changes styles between laconic, overwrought, and melancholy. It's amusingly repetitious. However, there are also offensive descriptions of her negro servant. It's funny when she gets the allusions and foreign phrases wrong. She describes climbing a single step as if it's epic. Her dog understands English and she can speak German. She gets her head stuck in a clock tower and nearly gets decapitated by the minute hand. Her eye pops out of her head and looks at her with insolence. Her head is cut off and she wonders whether the head or the body is the real her. Pretty funny.
Loss of Breath
While calling his wife names and yelling at her the day after their wedding, Mr. Lackobreath loses his breath and can only speak in guttural tones. Taking a coach to the city, a fat man falls asleep on him, dislocating all his limbs. Thinking him dead because he has no breath, he's thrown out of the coach. It runs over him, breaking both his arms and his trunk is thrown out, breaking his skull. A doctor begins dissecting him, then leaves for dinner. Lackobreath escapes, but gets mistaken for a prisoner headed to the gallows. He puts on such a good show twitching at the end of the rope, the crowd calls for an encore. He's put in a public vault and checks out the corpses. Fat-shames one, then criticizes a thin corpse who objects. His neighbor Mr. Windenough was also mistaken for dead after he caught someone else's breath. He gets his breath back and they escape. Hilarious dark humor.
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
When he was an infant, Toby Dammit's mother beat him until he was as black as an African, but unfortunately, she was left-handed so instead of beating evil out of him, she beat evil into him.听By the time he was one year old, he had a moustache and cursed. He refused to sign the Temperance pledge, etc. He liked to bet the devil his head until one day, the devil takes him up on it and he loses it. The homeopaths try to cure him, but unfortunately, he dies of his lost head a few days later. Pretty funny.
October 2, 2021
Este libro en especial es uno de los mejores que he disfrutado en mi vida. Ya antes hab铆a le铆do a Edgar Allan Poe (uno de mis autores favoritos de siempre) y el poder haber revisitado esos relatos, que tanto impacto tuvieron en m铆, sirvi贸 para reafirmar mi opini贸n de que este hombre fue uno de los mejores escritores que han aparecido en este mundo. Como seguro todos los que me leen ya saben quien fue Edgar Allan Poe, y la profunda huella que dej贸 en los g茅neros de terror, suspenso y policiaco en particular, y en la literatura en general, es mejor que hable de este volumen en s铆. Lo m谩s interesante es que todos los relatos, 70 en total, se presentan por orden cronol贸gico, lo que permite que seamos testigos de la evoluci贸n de Allan Poe como escritor, y como va refinando poco a poco su estilo y t茅cnica literaria. Y ya desde los primeros relatos podemos ser testigos de su imaginaci贸n prodigiosa y su maestr铆a como narrador de historias, que fue aumentando m谩s y m谩s con el paso del tiempo. Esta edici贸n en espa帽ol, de Penguin Cl谩sicos, cuenta con traducciones de Julio G贸mez De La Serna, Carlos Del Pozo, Diego Navarro, Fernando Guti茅rrez y Flora Casas, que hacen muy buen trabajo al transmitirnos al espa帽ol la t茅cnica del famoso escritor. Cada relato cuenta con una breve introducci贸n, donde se nos dan datos muy interesantes y 煤tiles respecto a lo que estamos a punto de leer, y al final de dicho relato, se nos dice quien estuvo a cargo de la traducci贸n. Hay notas a pie de p谩gina tambi茅n, y al final vienen dos textos de Edgar Allan Poe, que escribi贸 en vida para dos antolog铆as que aparecieron en esos a帽os de su obra. Vienen tambi茅n al final los dos prefacios que escribi贸 el famoso Charles Baudelaire, donde nos habla de la vida y obra del buen Poe, adem谩s de sus relatos, ensayos y poes铆as. La letra y tipograf铆a es grande, lo que hace que la lectura sea muy agil y c贸moda, y a pesar de ser un libro largo (de 1272 p谩ginas), uno sigue leyendo y leyendo con mucho gusto, y no se siente para nada la longitud del texto. Vale la pena aclarar tambi茅n que este volumen no contiene "Las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym", ya que esa historia no es un cuento, sino una novela corta (novelette). Pero como dice el t铆tulo, contiene TODOS los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, e incluso viene "El Faro", un relato inconcluso del escritor, que no pudo llegar a su final debido a la muerte de aquel. Total, este volumen se los recomiendo bastante. Como ya dej茅 claro mas arriba, es uno de los mejores libros que he le铆do en mi vida.
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