Edgar Allan Poe

Morella: Edicion Bilingue / Bilingual Edition Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher Marketing: Un narrador protagonista anonimo en primera persona omnisciente cuenta la historia de su matrimonio con Morella, una culta y extrana mujer que lee y profundiza en las prohibidas paginas del misticismo. Sus sentimientos hacia ella habian sido siempre extranos e indefinibles, el narrador sabe que nunca sintio amor por Morella. Como resultado de sus practicas y lecturas, logro la inmortalidad de su alma, pero su forma fisica habia empezado a deteriorarse cada vez mas, por lo tanto pasa su tiempo en su cama hablando con su marido y ensenandole las artes oscuras que habia aprendido. El estaba sumamente asustado por las palabras de Morella y en secreto le deseaba la muerte, pese a que intentaba disimularlo todo el tiempo. Finalmente, muere durante el parto, pero su alma pasa a habitar en el cuerpo de la hija de ambos. Morella, antes de morir le dice al narrador, su marido, que nunca fue amada por el, por consiguiente, despues de la muerte seria amada por el con un amor perfecto y puro. An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question of identity. Morella spends her time in bed reading and teaching her husband. Realizing her physical deterioration, her husband, the narrator, becomes frightened and wishes for his wife's death and eternal peace. Eventually, Morella dies in childbirth proclaiming: "I am dying. But within me is a pledge of that affection... which thou didst feel for me, Morella. And when my spirit departs shall the child live." As the daughter gets older the narrator notices she bears an uncanny resemblance to her mother, but he refuses to give the child a name. By her tenth birthday the resemblance to Morella is frightening. Her father decides to have her baptized to release any evil from her, but this event brings the mother's soul back into her daughter. At the ceremony, the priest asks the daughter's name, to which the narrator replies "Morella." Immediately, the daughter calls out, "I am here!" and dies. The narrator himself bears her body to the tomb and finds no trace of the first Morella where he lays the second." Contributor Bio:  Poe, Edgar Allan Author, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is credited with pioneering the short story genre, inventing detective fiction, and contributing to the development of science fiction. However, Poe is best known for his works of the macabre, including such infamous titles as The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Lenore, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe was one of the first writers to make his living exclusively through his writing, working for literary journals and becoming known as a literary critic. His works have been widely adapted in film. Edgar Allan Poe died of a mysterious illness in 1849 at the age of 40.