La Ca�da de la Casa Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

La caída de la Casa Usher (título original en inglés: The Fall of the House of Usher), también conocido como El hundimiento de la casa Usher, es un cuento de terror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, considerado uno de los más importantes de su producción narrativa. Fue 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 en términos generales, y la que el propio autor consideraba de las más logradas que había escrito. Relato largo, generoso y matizado, es muy "literario", por su densa materia narrativa, por las numerosas citas que contiene, los títulos de libros, y hasta poemas completos, como "El palacio encantado", el cual había sido publicado separadamente en abril de 1839 en la revista Baltimore Museum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475064643
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/20/2012
Pages:	46
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.10(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.