Metzengerstein: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition

Metzengerstein: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition

by Edgar Allan Poe
Metzengerstein: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition

Metzengerstein: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Overview

La historia se centra en el joven Frederick, el último descendiente de la familia Metzengerstein, que carga con una prolongada rivalidad con la familia Berlifitzing. Sospechoso de haber causado un incendio que mató al patriarca de los Berlifitzing, Frederick se obsesiona con un caballo salvaje que no había notado anteriormente. Metzengerstein es castigado por su crueldad cuando su propio hogar se incendia y el caballo lo lleva hasta las llamas. La historia sigue muchas de las convenciones de la ficción gótica, pero a veces cae en la sátira o en la parodia del género.


The story, told from an unnamed third-person narrator, takes place in Hungary at an unspecified date. The opening passages describe a centuries-long rivalry between two wealthy families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings. The bitter enmity between the two families is so old that no one knows how far back it dates. The narrator states that its origin appears to rely on an "ancient" prophecy: "A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781515226710
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 07/25/2015
Series: Biblioteca Cl�sicos Biling�e
Pages: 38
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.09(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

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.
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