История кошки по имени Кома. Рассказы

by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, William J. Wintle

Кошки — одни из самых красивых, загадочных и таинственных созданий, что когда-либо жили с людьми. Во все времена, начиная с глубокой древности, в разных концах света слагались истории о кошках, полные мистических тайн. Так что невольно задумываешься: какие секреты скрывает милый пушистый зверек, свернувшийся в клубок у батареи?



В сборнике «История кошки по имени Кома» представлены самые разные рассказы зарубежных писателей о кошках — знаменитые и малоизвестные, веселые и грустные, сказочные и наполненные мистическим ужасом... Каждый найдет здесь что-нибудь по душе.

288 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

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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Reviews

[Draugtaur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Любопытный сборник рассказов, не объединённых ни автором, ни страной, ни временем, а только темой – кошками. Уровень рассказов соответственно тоже разный, но почти все они относятся к мистике и лёгкому хоррору, и приводят к неожиданному выводу: от кошек лучше держаться подальше.
Исключение пожалуй одно – "Белая кошка" Мари-Катрин д'Онуа, от которой всю дорогу ждёшь какого-то подвоха, но она действительно оказывается доброй и бесхитростной литературной европейской сказкой (не путать с жутковатыми народными европейскими сказками).
В целом же ощущения приятные. Хорошая бумага, твёрдая обложка, крупный шрифт. Отличное расслабляющее чтение на пару вечеров.

[Agnes P · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the concept of short stories about the cats. But I didn’t like the stories for the most part. I don’t like reading about animal abuse and most of the stories had it.