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La Máscara de la Muerte Roja Y Otros Cuentos Góticos / The Mask of the Red Death and Other Stories - by  Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback) - 1 of 1

La Máscara de la Muerte Roja Y Otros Cuentos Góticos / The Mask of the Red Death and Other Stories - by Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback)

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  • Llega a nuestra colección Penguin Clásicos Góticos una cuidada selección de los cuentos más fascinantes del maestro del terror Edgar Allan Poe.
  • About the Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) quedó huérfano desde muy joven; su padre abandonó a su familia en 1810 y su madre falleció al año siguiente.
  • 160 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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Llega a nuestra colección Penguin Clásicos Góticos una cuidada selección de los cuentos más fascinantes del maestro del terror Edgar Allan Poe.

Esta terrorífica selección de cuentos recibe el nombre de uno de los relatos más referenciados y adaptados del autor: La máscara de la muerte roja, una alegoría sobre la inevitabilidad de la muerte. Junto a otros tan espeluznantes como El corazón delator o La caída de la casa Usher, completamos esta preciosa edición que ya forma parte de nuestra colección Penguin Clásicos Góticos.

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First published in 1842, The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is an allegorical short story in the gothic horror vein. It is the 15th century. An unidentified country is infected with a contagion known as the Red Death. Half the population has succumbed to a quick, gory, and painful death. Prospero, the prince, deals with the situation by inviting a thousand of his people to revel with him in a palace designed with seven rooms located in a secluded abbey. Each of the rooms, which are arranged east to west, are decorated with a monochromatic color scheme, and lit only by a brazier in the hallway which casts light through a stained-glass window. The last room to the west is decorated in black and contains a large clock that strikes heavily on the hour with a tone that stops the musicians from playing and the dancers in their tracks. As the midnight hour approaches, a tall figure enters, wearing a funeral shroud and a mask resembling the countenance of a corpse. All are terrified; some seek to fend off the intruder, to no avail. They discover there is nothing beneath his robes and mask. And then....



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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) quedó huérfano desde muy joven; su padre abandonó a su familia en 1810 y su madre falleció al año siguiente. Tanto su obra como él mismo quedaron marcados por la idea de la muerte, y la estela de la desgracia no dejó de acecharlo durante toda su vida. Antes de cumplir los veinte ya era un bebedor consuetudinario y un jugador empedernido, y contrajo enormes deudas con su padre adoptivo, además de causarle todo tipo de problemas. En 1827 publica Tamerlán y otros poemas y en 1830 se instala en la casa de una tía que vivía en Baltimore acompañada de su sobrina de once años, Virginia Clemm, con quien se acabaría casando siete años más tarde. Trabajó como redactor en varias revistas de Filadelfia y Nueva York, y en 1849, dos años después de la muerte de su esposa, cae enfermo y fallece preso de la enfermedad y su adicción al alcohol y las drogas. Su producción poética, donde muestra una impecable construcción literaria, y sus ensayos, que se hicieron famosos por su sarcasmo e ingenio, son destellos del talento que lo encumbraría a la posteridad gracias a sus narraciones. Poe, de hecho, es conocido sobre todo por sus relatos y por ser el predecesor, en cierto modo, de la novela policíaca moderna. Sus cuentos destacan por su belleza literaria y por fundir en ellos lo macabro con el humor, el terror y la poesía.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.4 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 160
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Penguin Clasicos
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Language: Spanish
Street Date: February 17, 2026
TCIN: 1006713076
UPC: 9788491057659
Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-9214
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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