Poe

Jordi Sierra i Fabra



Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

«Some days they were forced to eat bread and molasses. There was nothing else. Maria Clemm did needlework. Virigina was too weak. They often went cold rather than use fuel for the stove; but they could not scrimp on whale oil or petrol for the lamp, because in the dark it was impossible to write.»

In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s life is given its human dimension, that of a writer whose genius must struggle against adversity. Scandal, misery, death, madness and, throughout it all, the forging of a sublime body of work, fill the days and nights of a creative visionary, one who was marked by tragedy.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra, winner of the National Prize for Young People’s and Children’s literature, has succeeded in creating a vivid portrait of Poe and his work, which Alberto Vázquez has endowed with extraordinary images.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra was nominated for Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback

Arthur Gordon Pym

Edgar Allan Poe



Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the american brig Grampus, on her way to the south seas, in the month of june, 1827 with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the british schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the antarctic ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.»

Luis Scafati’s talented illustrations enlighten the delightful terrors of this novel, which encloses all the obsessions of the brilliant Edgar Allan Poe.

165 x 240 mm; 248 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe



Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«I neither expect nor ask that you believe in this savage yet homely story I am going to write. It would be madness to expect this as even my own senses reject the evidence. Nevertheless, I am not mad and I can assure you I’m not dreaming.»

So begins The Black Cat, the story that gives this volume its title. In the short stories in this collection, the everyday reveals to the reader a second, darker nature. Hallucination or reality? An ambiguous threshold to the fantastical universe of Edgar Allen Poe.

Elvio E. Gandolfo (translation)

45 x 205 mm; 60/72 pp. Hardback | ISBN: 84-9795-142-5

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Poe

Jordi Sierra i Fabra



Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

«Some days they were forced to eat bread and molasses. There was nothing else. Maria Clemm did needlework. Virigina was too weak. They often went cold rather than use fuel for the stove; but they could not scrimp on whale oil or petrol for the lamp, because in the dark it was impossible to write.»

In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s life is given its human dimension, that of a writer whose genius must struggle against adversity. Scandal, misery, death, madness and, throughout it all, the forging of a sublime body of work, fill the days and nights of a creative visionary, one who was marked by tragedy.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra, winner of the National Prize for Young People’s and Children’s literature, has succeeded in creating a vivid portrait of Poe and his work, which Alberto Vázquez has endowed with extraordinary images.

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback

See the author's biography
See the illustrator's biography