Edgar Allan Poe

Una Historia De Las Montanas Ragged/a Tale of the Ragged Mountains: Edicion Bilingue / Bilingual Edition Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher Marketing: Durante el otono del ano 1827, cuando yo residia cerca de Charlottesville, Virginia, casualmente conoci al senor Augusto Bedloe. Este joven caballero era notable en todos los aspectos y desperto en mi profundo interes y curiosidad. Halle imposible comprender sus relaciones, tanto morales como fisicas. Nunca averigue de donde venia. Hasta en su edad, aunque le llamo joven gentleman, habia algo que me asombraba en no pequena medida. Ciertamente parecia joven, y no dejaba de hablar de su juventud, pero habia momentos en los cuales yo no habria tenido el menor reparo en imaginarlo de cien anos de edad, pues nada habia tan peculiar como su aspecto exterior. During the fall of the year 1827, while residing near Charlottesville, Virginia, I casually made the acquaintance of Mr. Augustus Bedloe. This young gentleman was remarkable in every respect, and excited in me a profound interest and curiosity. I found it impossible to comprehend him either in his moral or his physical relations. Of his family I could obtain no satisfactory account. Whence he came, I never ascertained. Even about his age-although I call him a young gentleman-there was something which perplexed me in no little degree. He certainly seemed young-and he made a point of speaking about his youth-yet there were moments when I should have had little trouble in imagining him a hundred years of age. But in no regard was he more peculiar than in his personal appearance." 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.