The Fall of the House of Usher and other Stories

Resumen del libro

The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the lake.

It is revealed that Roderick's twin sister, Madeline, is also ill and falls into cataleptic, deathlike trances. The narrator is impressed with Roderick's paintings, and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Roderick sings The Haunted Palace, then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be alive, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it.

This edition of the book contains more short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

Biografía del autor

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) es una de las figuras clave de la literatura moderna. El influjo de su obra se puede rastrear en la raíz de muchos de los géneros actuales más populares, así como en numerosísimos autores posteriores, desde Charles Baudelaire a Julio Cortázar. Libros de Poe en Alianza Editorial: "Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym", "El cuervo y otros poemas" y "Cuentos" (en dos volúmenes).