Name: The Angel of The Odd (en Inglés)
SKU: 56652630
Price: 19880.00 CLP
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781717066701

portada The Angel of The Odd (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Edgar Allan Poe

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3x12.7x0.2 cm

Peso

0.04 kg.

ISBN13

9781717066701

Categorías

Textos antiguos, clásicos y medievales

The Angel of The Odd (en Inglés)

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"The Angel of the Odd" is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a story about a man who died after accidentally sucking a needle down his throat. He rages at the gullibility of humanity for believing such a hoax. He vows to never fall for such odd stories. Just then, a strange-looking creature made of a keg and wine bottles appears. The creature announces in a heavy accent that he is the Angel of the Odd - and that he is responsible for causing such strange events. The man, unconvinced, drives the angel away and takes an alcohol-induced nap. Instead of a 25-minute nap, he wakes up two hours later, having missed an appointment to renew his fire insurance. Ironically, his house has caught fire and his only escape is out a window using a ladder the crowd below has provided for him. As he steps down, a hog brushes against the ladder, causing the narrator to fall and fracture his arm. Later, the narrator's attempts at wooing a rich woman to be his wife end in failure when she realizes he is wearing a wig which he must wear since the fire in his apartment singed off his hair. Then, he tries to woo another woman who also leaves him, scoffing at him for ignoring her as she passes. In reality, a particle had gotten into his eye, momentarily blinding him, just as she passed. Finally, the narrator decides his ill fortune is cause for him to end his life. He decides to commit suicide by drowning himself in a river after removing his clothes ("for this is no reason why we cannot die as we were born," he says). However, a crow runs off with "the most indispensable portion" of his clothes and the man chases after it. As he is running, he runs off a cliff. However, he grabs on to the long rope of a hot air balloon as it happens to be floating by. The Angel of the Odd reappears to him and makes him admit that the bizarre really can happen. The narrator agrees, but is unable to physically perform the pledge that the Angel of the Odd demands because of his fractured arm. The Angel then cuts the rope and the man falls down onto his newly-rebuilt house through the chimney and into the dining room. The man then realizes this was his punishment. "Thus revenged himself the Angel of the Odd." The story is especially interesting as it was published only six months after Poe's own great hoax, "The Balloon-Hoax," which many believed to be true despite its elements of the odd. The angel speaks with an unusual dialect, which Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn said "was not spoken anywhere on the globe."

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, Estados Unidos, 1809-1849) fue un célebre escritor estadounidense, considerado maestro del relato corto y renovador de la narrativa gótica. Su obra, marcada por el misterio y el terror, incluye títulos emblemáticos como El cuervo (1845), que lo inmortalizó, y poemas y relatos innovadores que influyeron en géneros como el policial y la ciencia ficción. Además de su producción literaria, Poe destacó como crítico y teórico, especialmente con su ensayo La filosofía de la composición (1846). Su legado sigue vivo y ha inspirado la literatura, el cine, la música y el arte hasta nuestros días.

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