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Edgar Allan Poe
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Shared themes:#madness
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Stories of Love, Madness and Death
Complete work
1917 · Complete work
Stories of Love, Madness and Death
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“Where passionate devotion brushes against the abyss and human fragility collides with the relentless brutality of the wilderness.”
Published in 1917, this masterwork by the great Río de la Plata writer gathers chilling tales where fatality lies in wait within the deepest corners of the Misiones jungle. With unyielding tension, Horacio Quiroga explores the extreme boundaries of the human psyche, feverish delirium, and love driven to its most harrowing extremes. Each page of this immortal volume plunges the reader into a universe where everyday reality shatters abruptly before the shadow of death.
27 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~12 min
A Season of Love · I
“Nébel had just entered the corso, already at dusk, and while untangling a pack of streamers, he looked at the carriage ahead.”
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Episode 02
~12 min
A Season of Love · II
“One afternoon, after lunch, as he was passing by Arrizabalaga’s house, he had felt a mad desire to see her.”
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Episode 03
~7 min
A Season of Love · III
““Don’t you know, Lydia?” her daughter exclaimed joyfully upon returning.”
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Episode 04
~11 min
The Gloomy Eyes
““Do not trust such convulsions,” Zapiola said to me with a calm and serious air.”
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Episode 05
~7 min
The Solitary
“Kassim was a sickly man, a jeweler by trade, though he had no established shop.”
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Episode 06
~11 min
The Death of Isolde
“It was, above all, a beauty for men, without being in the least provocative; and this is precisely what women will never understand.”
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Episode 07
~12 min
The Artificial Hell
“A coffin has been left open behind the iron grille, and beside it, on the sand, lies the skeleton of the man who was locked inside it.”
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Episode 08
~12 min
The Decapitated Hen
“The bench stood parallel to it, five meters away, and there they remained motionless, their eyes fixed on the bricks.”
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Episode 09
~6 min
The Suicide Ships
“The ships finally stop, here or there, motionless forever in that desert of seaweed.”
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Episode 10
~6 min
The Feather Pillow
“Blonde, angelic, and timid, the harsh character of her husband froze her dreamed-up bride’s childishness.”
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Episode 11
~7 min
The Mad Dog · I
“Today marks thirty-nine days, hour for hour, since the rabid dog entered our room at night.”
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Episode 12
~6 min
The Mad Dog · II
“The bite was distinct, two violet punctures, which I pressed with all my strength, and washed with permanganate.”
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Episode 13
~5 min
Adrift
“He jumped forward, and as he turned with an oath, saw a yararacusú coiled upon itself and awaiting another strike.”
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Episode 14
~12 min
Sunstroke
“He stopped at the edge of the grass, stretched toward the scrubland, narrowing his eyes, his nose vibrating, and sat down quietly.”
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Episode 15
~9 min
The Barbed Wire · I
“To be sure, from within, still very close by, the mischievous pinto would answer his desperate neighs with a full-mouthed little whinny.”
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Episode 16
~7 min
The Barbed Wire · II
““Well; do your best so it doesn’t get in, because if it crosses it’s going to hurt itself.””
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Episode 17
~8 min
The Mensú · I
“Cayetano Maidana and Esteban Podeley, logging camp laborers, were returning to Posadas on the Silex, along with fifteen companions.”
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Episode 18
~8 min
The Mensú · II
““Until tomorrow,” Podeley walked away, quickening his pace, because in his heels he had just felt a slight tingling.”
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Episode 19
~10 min
Yaguaí · I
“He circled it again, snorted into a crevice, and, to the honor of the breed, scratched the scorching block for an instant.”
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Episode 20
~7 min
Yaguaí · II
“Fragoso, worried by the ruin of his clearing and disputes with the owner of his land, had no humor for hunting, not even out of hunger.”
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Episode 21
~10 min
The Beam-Fishers
““Yes, a lot of racket,” agreed Mr. Hall, who found his visitor’s observations not devoid of depth.”
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Episode 22
~8 min
The Wild Honey
“Not that his temperament was such, for rather he was a peaceful, chubby boy with a uniformly rosy face, by reason of great well-being.”
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Episode 23
~8 min
Our First Cigarette · I
“That very afternoon we left the house, settling into the only one we could find with such haste, an old country house in the outskirts.”
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Episode 24
~6 min
Our First Cigarette · II
“The little stepfather stopped, utterly livid; he rolled his dilated eyes everywhere, and approached the well.”
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Episode 25
~10 min
Meningitis and its Shadow · I
““Look here, Durán: you know very well I haven’t come to see you at this hour to talk about trivialities; isn’t that so?””
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Episode 26
~13 min
Meningitis and its Shadow · II
““But the delirium,” I insisted, “does it always exist?””
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Episode 27
~14 min
Meningitis and its Shadow · III
“But of interest, the man with whom one has dreamed twenty nights in a row, not that.”
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Public-domain work (1917). Text: Project Gutenberg #13507. The English version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more