Edgar Allan Poe's short story about two unnamed characters who discuss and experience their environment in the year 3830. "Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment. His accession to the throne, or rather his usurpation of the sovereignty, a hundred and seventy-one years before the coming of Christ; his attempt to plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus; his...

William Legrand, tras sufrir problemas economicos, se traslado a la isla Sullivan, donde fijo su residencia. Se dedicaba a la caza y pesca. Salia a excursiones acompanado de su sirviente negro, Jupiter. El narrador anonimo de la historia entablo amistad con Legrand. Una tarde lo visito y se entero que Legrand habia encontrado un escarabajo de oro. No lo vio porque Legrand lo habia entregado a un teniente. Esa tarde los dos amigos tuvieron algunos malentendidos, asi, el narrador se despidio y se fue a su casa.

Public Domain original text translated into Esperanto. Images are also in Public Domain. Ses rakontoj de Edgar Allan Poe.

This collection of chilling horror stories from the maestro of suspense contains Edgar Allan Poe's best known stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." For readers who have never come across the work of Poe before, it is a great introduction to some of his finest work. A book that will be successful with both the gift and reference markets.