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It's Poe, always a bit of a twist. ( ) Edgar Allan Poe’s highly symbolic short story about death and the futility of attempting to avoid it, is one of the most read short stories of all time. In these days of pestilence abroad, it made for a reminder that things could be worse, but also that time marches regardless of circumstance and that death is to come for all of us, and often when least expected. I think this is supposed to be a gothic thriller. But while it definitely had gothic elements, I didn't find it thrilling at all. I enjoy Poe's work (or at least I did last time I read it) but I found this one boring. And I don't think that's just because of the COVID-19 crisis we're currently living through. I had thought that reading The Masque of the Red Death now would be even more interesting given COVID-19. But the writing style wasn't what I had expected from Poe, and I didn't really care for it. I mean, it was okay. Its writing style is a product of its time, and I didn't exactly dislike it. I just didn't exactly like it either. Extremely relevant now, during the COVID-19 pandemic! Place Trump, or any other ugly, wealth and power hungry despot, in the place of Prince Prospero, and you've basically got the system we have now in the U.S.. The wealthy get protection the rest of us can only dream of. But in this story, the Prince and his 1,000 chosen ones enter a world that I could only dream of! Comeuppance! For me, in this context, the "spectral image" is a hero! Wish we had someone like him now... "And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death." Another one by a supreme innovator and true master. It's hard to find much of any of his work that disappoints. While he didn't invent the horror or gothic genres, I would contend he was the first and most influential in creating, shaping and sustaining such genres before the baton was later passed on to Lovecraft. Recommended, as always with Poe... Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics) por Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Poe (The Camelot Series) por Edgar Allan Poe O Gato Negro E Outros Contos De Horror (Aula Das letras) - 9788468214467 por Edgar Allan Poe (indirecto) The Works of Edgar Allen Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notes por Edgar Allan Poe The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms por Edgar Allan Poe The annotated tales of Edgar Allan Poe edited with an introduction, notes, and a bibliography por Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Stories and Poems (Collector's Library Editions) por Edgar Allan Poe (indirecto) Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Tales of Suspense por Wilkie Collins (indirecto) 2 Volumes: Prose and Poetry for Appreciation, Prose and Poetry for Enjoyment (The St. Thomas More Series) por Julian L. Maline (indirecto) Panik Gruselgeschichten aus England und Amerika von R. L. Stevenson bis Ernest Hemingway por Mary Hottinger (indirecto) Phantoms and fantasies;: 20 tales por Rudyard Kipling (indirecto) The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense por Joan Kahn (indirecto) Tiene la adaptaciónTiene como guÃa de estudio aListas de sobresalientes
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HTML: Este ebook presenta "La máscara de la muerte roja ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Es un cuento del escritor Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en 1842. Narra la historia de Próspero, un prÃncipe italiano que abandona a su pueblo, amenazado por la peste y se construye un palacio amurallado para protegerse del exterior. Su vida y la de algunos elegidos contrasta con la miseria, la enfermedad y la muerte que acechan fuera... Hasta que en un baile de disfraces aparece alguien que no ha sido invitado: la máscara de la Muerte. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 â?? 1849) fue un escritor, poeta, crÃtico y periodista romántico estadounidense, generalmente reconocido como uno de los maestros universales del relato corto. Fue renovador de la novela gótica, recordado especialmente por sus cuentos de terror. Considerado el inventor del relato detectivesco, contribuyó asimismo con varias obras al género emergente de No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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