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TitleObras en prosa

AuthorEdgar Allan Poe

Editing placeMadrid

EditorialUniversidad de Puerto Rico; Revista de Occidente

Year1956

IllustratorAlbert Edward Sterner, Charles Adams Platt , Frederick Stuart Church , Robert Swain Gifford

Edition typeComplete works (translation)

TranslatorJulio Cortázar

LanguageSpanish

LibraryBUCLM 821-3 POE obr (1); 821-3 POE obr (2)

Volumes2

Number of pages913

Size (in cms)23,2 x 16,5

Works included
A Descent into the Maelström
A Predicament
A Sucession of Sundays (Three Sundays in a Week)
A Tale of Jerusalem
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Berenice
Bon-Bon
Charles Dickens [Review of Barnaby Rudge]
Cryptography
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences
Eleonora
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Epimanes (Four Beasts in One)
Exordium [to Critical Notes]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Longfellow´s Ballads]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Willis and the American Drama]
Hop-Frog
King Pest. A Tale Containing an Allegory
Landor´s Cottage
Letter to B---
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess Player
Magazine-Writing — Peter Snook
Marginalia
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Mystification
Nathaniel Hawthorne [Tale-Writing — Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Never Bet the Devil your Head (a Tale with a Moral)
Preface to The Raven and Other Poems
Review of Stephens´s Incidents of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land
Review of The Culprit Fay (Joseph Rodman Drake) and Alnwick Castle (Fitz-Greene Halleck)
Review of Washington Irving´s Astoria
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House
Some Words with a Mummy
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
The Duc de L’Omelette
The Elk
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq (Late Editor of the "Goosethingumfoodle")
The Man of the Crowd
The Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Oblong Box
The Philosophy of Composition
The Philosophy of Furniture
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Poetic Principle
The Power of Words
The Premature Burial
The Psyche Zenobia (How to Write a Blackwood Article)
The Purloined Letter
The Rationale of Verse
The Spectacles
The Sphinx
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Moore [Review of Alciphron: A Poem (Fancy and Imagination)]
Thou Art the Man
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
William Cullen Bryant
William Wilson
X-ing a Paragrab

Works illustrated
King Pest. A Tale Containing an Allegory
Mellonta Tauta
Portrait
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Man of the Crowd
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
William Wilson

Bibliographic referencesPOLLIN 287 (1405)

DescriptionIt includes the prose texts (tales, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym", essays, criticism, and Eureka), divided into two volumes and translated by Julio Cortázar. It also contains an introduction to Poe's life and work written by the translator.
Illustrated by twenty-one illustrations, a large part (ten) are portraits related to the biography of Edgar A. Poe. The rest are reproductions of illustrations previously published in other editions.
It is part of the "Biblioteca de la cultura básica" collection.

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