Колодец и маятник

by Edgar Allan Poe

Эдгар Аллан По – человек ослепительного таланта и горестной судьбы. Классик американской литературы, поэт и прозаик, непревзойденный создатель гротескных фантасмагорий, безумных кошмаров, изящных логических построений. Его перу принадлежит множество рассказов: психологические, готические, романтические, детективные, сатирические и пародийные. В своих произведениях По отворачивается от «жизни как она есть» и создает иную реальность, неясную и туманную, реальность грез и мечты, которая вот уже более века не отпускает от себя почитателей его творчества.
В настоящую книгу вошли известные рассказы, такие как «Метценгерштейн», «Король Чума», «Лигейя», «Колодец и маятник» и другие.

Genres: Short Stories

352 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

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

[Sergey Nadolskiy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Восхитительный рассказ, про то, что никогда не нужно сдаваться! Советую к прочтению!

[Cigarettes Instead Name · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of Allan Poe's stories with its atmosphere and descriptions. But to be honest I didn't finish the last stories and read only the beginning and the end. Probably because of lack of interest in the things being described.
I started reading this book three times and finally got around to reading it from beginning to end.