Золотой Век Детектива: Черный кот

by Edgar Allan Poe

Содержание:

Содержание:

Эдгар Аллан По. Черный кот (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 5-15
Эдгар Аллан По. Убийства на улице Морг (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 16-55
Эдгар Аллан По. Бес противоречия (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 56-63
Эдгар Аллан По. «Ты еси муж» (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 64-80
Эдгар Аллан По. Повествование Артура Гордона Пима из Нантакета (роман, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 81-254
Эдгар Аллан По. Золотой жук (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 255-293
Эдгар Аллан По. Лигейя (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 294-310
Эдгар Аллан По. Стук сердца (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 311-316
Эдгар Аллан По. Уильям Уильсон (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 317-339
Эдгар Аллан По. Береника (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 340-349
Эдгар Аллан По. Метценгерштейн (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 350-360
Эдгар Аллан По. Сфинкс (рассказ, перевод В. Михалюка), стр. 361-365

368 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2018

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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