Perrault's fairy tales in a scintillating new translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Dore. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject.
A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.
This is a collection of 29 of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories, along with some of his more obscure tales. In these chilling stories, Poe's macabre imagination explores the darkest corners of the human mind and the furthest reaches of the paranormal.
Misterios por resolver, muertes naturales, provocadas, imaginadas o sonadas; personajes que soportan trastornos de difícil diagnóstico... son algunos de los temas que tratan estos cuentos, que mantienen en vilo al lector y lo introducen en un mundo fantástico donde lo sobrenatural y lo desconocido se convierten en protagonistas. Sus obras han influido de manera decisiva en escritores de la talla de Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar o Nabokov.