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    La caída de la Casa Usher
    La caída de la Casa Usher
    La caída de la Casa Usher
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    La caída de la Casa Usher

    By Edgar Allan Poe and Agustín Comotto

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    La caída de la Casa Usher es la quintaesencia del cuento gótico: una casa embrujada, un paisaje lúgubre, dos hermanos gemelos, una enfermedad misteriosa…Todos los elementos del género son fácilmente identificables y, sin embargo, parte del terror que inspira esta historia se debe a su vaguedad; no podemos decir a ciencia cierta en qué parte del mundo o exactamente cuándo tiene lugar la historia.
    Estamos solos con el narrador en este espacio embrujado, y ni nosotros ni el narrador sabemos por qué.
    Publicado por primera vez en la revista Burton's Gentleman's Magazine en 1839, es una de las obras de Poe preferidas por la crítica, y la que el propio autor consideraba la más lograda que había escrito.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherNórdica Libros
    Release dateJul 20, 2015
    ISBN9788416440009
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    Edgar Allan Poe

    New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

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    • 3/5
      A classic gothic Poe novella. Good. Worth the read.
    • 3/5
      Read for coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction course. Good, lots of color--especially in varieties of gray/black--mentioned. Good mood setting. The story itself? Meh.
    • 5/5
      Dark and creepy; a great short story.
    • 2/5
      This horror/suspense short story had a lot of buildup and mood-setting descriptions, but was a much shorter tale than I had anticipated or remembered. I think I used the dictionary function on my Nook more times in this story than I have in the last ten books I've read combined. This one didn't live up to my expectations for Poe, the master of suspense.
    • 4/5
      A gothic tale by Poe as the narrator visits an old friend. Things don't quite seem right, and the story quickly turns into a tale of horror. I'm pretty sure I read this at some point in the past, but it was a nice change of pace.
    • 5/5
      Of course; I'd read this before (somewhere or other, I have an old set of the complete works of Poe, which I bought at the estate sale of a recently-deceased woman - I felt it was appropriate, somehow.) However, it's been a long time. A re-read was welcome, since I'd recently read "Madeline's Version" by F. Brett Cox, which gives another viewpoint on this tale.
      Still, for language and vivid imagery, the original Poe cannot be surpassed. Just the opening paragraphs bring the titular house to chilling 'life' as no other description of a cursed abode may even have done. A classic for a reason.
    • 4/5
      "The Fall of the House of Usher" recounts the terrible events that befall the last remaining members of the once-illustrious Usher clan—narrated by the boyhood friend of Roderick Usher. It is a gothic horror story and a great example of how an author such as Poe gets straight to the point. It is a quick read—but the fear and the horror grow with sentence. A 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 3/5
      There’s overly exuberant Poe who tries to capture horror in an abundance of exclamations and a rush of words and then there’s the Poe who captures horror in a neurotic and melancholy creep of dread. I like the latter.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this little short story (novelette? It seems to rich and full to be called a short story). I think this is a story that could really benefit from re-reads (and re-re-reads and re-re-re-reads). The story grabs you from the opening description of the house of Usher, especially with it's subtle personification, specifically the several references to eyes and the eerie sense of doom. I am not enough of a scholar to be able to say what exactly created the feeling of unease, but as Usher and the narrator's paranoia rose, so did mine! I would recommend this quick, gripping read to anyone.
    • 2/5
      I've read two stories from this collection for the 1001 books to read before you die list. The first one "The Purloined Letter" sucked. I DNF because it was so boring and really too much information to get through just to find out how he got his hands on the letter. However, the second story "The Fall of the House of Usher" was more of the Poe writing that I enjoy. It's about a haunted house with a poor man who is going crazy inside it. Ending was strange and left it to the reader's imagination what happened to Usher.
    • 5/5
      I'd never read Poe before when I bought this book. I usually hate florid writing (basically, anything before the late 19th century) and a quick glance at the prose made me a little worried about whether I would even be able to make sense of it. However, I persevered and now I've finished all the stories and am sad cause I know there's no more to read.Poe understands horror and suspense to perfection. He also understands a lot of other things which nobody seems to appreciate anymore, IMO. Some of the more surreal stories in this collection reminded me strongly of Gogol. I'm not really a fan of surreal writing, but many of the other stories - especially the 'futuristic technology' ones - reminded me of some of Conan Doyle's stories, which is some of the highest praise I could give an author.In particular, I'm indebted to Poe for inspiring Conan Doyles's Sherlock Holmes, one of my favorite literary protagonists of all time. I actually think the Sherlock Holmes stories are better developed than Poe's detective tales, but one can forgive him since he pioneered the detective genre.My favorite story, by far, was 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'. I love a good adventure story, and this was an epic that just went on and on and oooon....in a very good way. It also showed how incredibly educated the author was on everything from the breedings habits of sea-birds to handling a ship. I learnt so much about random subjects from this story.I was going to try to list some of my other favorites, but there are just too many so I'm leaving it at this.
    • 4/5
      Fue un buen relató,me gustó el final, me dejó satisfecha
    • 3/5
      The Balloon-Hoax - Wow. That was really boring.Ms. Found in a Bottle - Good suspense, but the ending confused me.A Descent into the Maelstrom - Not too memorable.The Murders in the Rue Morgue - A rather silly Holmes-esque mystery tale.The Purloined Letter - Not bad, but far too wordy.The Black Cat - Deliciously disturbing.The Fall of the House of Usher - Not as interesting as his others, but good atmosphere.The Pit and the Pendulum - A delightful tale of suspense.The Masque of the Red Death - Meh. Weird for no reason and kind of boring.The Cask of Amontillado - I think makes Poe so memorable is his vivid first-person accounts from the point of view of a killer.The Assignation - I couldn't follow this one. What did the drowning child and the art aficionado have to do with one another?The Tell-Tale Heart - Funnier than I'd remembered. One of my all-time favorites.Diddling - A random essay on swindling.The Man That was Used Up - Silly, amusing, but ends a bit too abruptly.Narrative of A. Gordon Pym - Some good bits, but I think I just don't like maritime fiction.
    • 4/5
      This is very thrilling story.I was interested in his book because Japanese famous writer Ranpo Edogawa is made by changing Edgar Allan Poe.The story is nice.But a little dreadful
    • 5/5
      My first collection of the maestro's work. Inexorably moody.
    • 3/5
      Edgar Allan Poe was the inventor of the thriller and made an very chilling work of his story "The Fall of the House of Usher". Being my favorite work of his besides "The Raven", I would recommend it to anyone. However, his stories all together are a bit too grim and gruesome for my taste.

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    La caída de la Casa Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

    LA CAÍDA DE LA CASA USHER

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Ilustraciones de Agustín Comotto

    Traducción de Francisco Torres Oliver

    Título original: The fall of the house of Usher

    © De las ilustraciones: Agustín Comotto

    © De la traducción: Francisco Torres Oliver

    Edición en ebook: junio de 2015

    © Nórdica Libros, S.L.

    C/ Fuerte de Navidad, 11, 1.º B 28044 Madrid (España)

    www.nordicalibros.com

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    Diseño de colección: Diego Moreno

    Corrección ortotipográfica: Victoria Parra y Ana Patrón

    Maquetación ebook: Caurina Diseño Gráfico

    Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de sus titulares, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos, www.cedro.org) si necesita fotocopiar o escanear algún fragmento de esta obra.

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    Edgar Allan Poe

    (Boston, 1809- Baltimore, 1849)

    Escritor, poeta, crítico y periodista romántico estadounidense, generalmente reconocido como uno de los maestros universales del relato corto, del que fue pionero en su país. Renovó la novela gótica y es recordado especialmente por sus cuentos de terror. Considerado el inventor del relato detectivesco, contribuyó asimismo con varias obras al género emergente de la ciencia-ficción. Por otra parte, fue el primer escritor norteamericano de renombre que intentó hacer de la escritura su modus vivendi, lo que tuvo para él lamentables consecuencias.

    Agustín Comotto

    (Buenos Aires, 1968)

    Aprendió a dibujar cómics de la mano de Alberto Breccia y Leopoldo Durañona, publicando para diversos medios en Argentina y en Estados Unidos. Desde los 90 se dedica exclusivamente al campo de la ilustración como ilustrador y autor. Tiene libros publicados en México, Venezuela, Argentina, España, Corea e Italia. En el 2000 recibe el premio «A la orilla del Viento» de la editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica y en el 2001 la mención White Raven por el álbum Siete millones de Escarabajos del cual es autor e ilustrador. Desde el año 1999 vive en Corbera de Llobregat, pueblo cerca de Barcelona.

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