Alma Books Tales of Horror По Эдгар Аллан

Не для слабонервных! В леденящем душу сборнике "Классические истории ужасов" собраны некоторые из самых известных рассказов Эдгара Аллана По, включая "Падение дома Ашеров" и "Маску красной смерти" • Темы вины, страха и мести изобилуют, поскольку мастер готического хоррора переносит читателей в таинственные миры, увлекает их в опасные морские путешествия и расследует ужасные убийства в таких рассказах, как "Черная кошка", "Яма и маятник" и "Бочонок Амонтильядо" • Исследуя скрытые глубины человеческого разума, эти истории полны острых ощущений и интриг • Книга на английском языке • Not for those of a nervous disposition! This chilling collection contains some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher and The Masque of Red Death

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As well as various tales of escapades in Egypt, London and the far-flung regions of northern Scotland, he included stories which deal with a subject that, as a physician himself, he had a unique perspective on: the medical profession • London surgeons and country doctors, male and female, are described as they deal with business and sentimental issues and encounter incredible situations – both comic and tragic. Conan Doyle displays his dazzling storytelling talents while providing a fascinating glimpse into his profession and times • Contains: ‘The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce’, ‘The Surgeon of Gaster Fell’, ‘Borrowed Scene’, ‘The Man from Archangel’, ‘The Great Brown-Pericord Motor’, ‘The Sealed Room’, ‘A Physiologist’s Wife’, ‘Behind the Times’, ‘His First Operation’, ‘The Third Generation’, ‘The Curse of Eve’, ‘A Medical Document’, ‘The Surgeon Talks’, ‘The Doctors of Holyland’, ‘Crabbe’s Practice’

While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres for which he has become a byword • These eclectic, captivating tales – dealing with topics such as mysterious jungles in the sky, seventeenth-century torture techniques, a bloodthirsty Brazilian cat and a train mysteriously disappearing between two stations – showcase Arthur Conan Doyle at his creative best • Contains: ‘The Horror of the Heights’, ‘The Leather Funnel’, ‘The New Catacomb’, ‘The Case of Lady Sannox’, ‘The Terror of Blue John Gap’, ‘The Brazilian Cat’, ‘The Lost Special’, ‘The Beetle-Hunter’, ‘The Man with the Watches’, ‘The Japanned Box’, ‘The Black Doctor’, ‘The Jew’s Breastplate’ and ‘The Nightmare Room’

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London household, these disparate tales display Conrad's ability to explore and lay bare human nature • Set in Central Africa, 'An Outpost of Progress' is suffused with irony and represents a ruthlessly mocking view of European imperialism. 'Karain' and 'The Lagoon' are exotic tales of the Malay Archipelago, with the former telling of disharmony and discord between Western traders and the indigenous inhabitants. 'The Return' recounts the story of, in the author's own words, "a desirable middle-class town residence which somehow manages to produce a sinister effect"

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’, as well as lesser-known sketches and tales, this diverse selection, compiled by Fitzgerald himself from material published in newspapers and magazines, showcases both the variety of his writing and early examples of the themes and characters which would find their way into his later novels

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection he compiled in 1922 • These vivid and enthralling stories – which take the reader to Roman Britain, ancient Carthage, Mecca at the time of the Prophet Muhammad and many other evocative settings – showcase the author’s knack for bringing to life diverse times and places and crafting enduring narratives. Tales of Long Ago is an entertaining and invaluable read for all those interested in this lesser-known facet of Conan Doyle’s writing • Contains: ‘The Last of the Legions’, ‘The Last Galley’, ‘Through the Veil’, ‘The Coming of the Huns’, ‘The Contest’, ‘The First Cargo’, ‘An Iconoclast’, ‘Giant Maximin’, ‘The Red Star’, ‘The Silver Mirror’, ‘The Homecoming’, ‘A Point of Contact’

A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have become part of our collective imagination, these stories - concerned with ghosts, obscure scientific experiments and other unexplained phenomena - are now unjustly neglected

Эдгар Аллан По — знаменитый американский поэт, прозаик, критик, журналист. Человек ослепительного таланта и • горестной судьбы. Ненавистники и почитатели, подражатели и последователи — всем им, и уже не один век, не дает • покоя наследие По. Его влияние как писателя и поэта на мировую литературу огромно. В области поэзии это и • Шарль Бодлер, и французский cимволизм, практически весь русский Серебряный век. В настоящем двуязычном издании • По представлен именно в ипостаси поэта. «Создание прекрасного посредством ритма» — так определял поэзию По, • автор таких поэтических шедевров, как «Ворон», «Аннабель Ли», «Улялюм», «Колокола», «Линор». В своих стихах • 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 творчества гениального поэта

В книгу вошли наиболее известные рассказы классика американской литературы, а также его знаменитый роман-мистификация "Сообщение Артура Гордона Пима". Эдгар Аллан По - человек ослепительного таланта и горестной судьбы. Его перу принадлежит более семидесяти новелл, обусловивших возникновение многих литературных школ. Основоположник детективного жанра, научной фантастики, талантливейший поэт, критик и журналист, Эдгар По вот уже более полутора столетий остается одним из самых читаемых авторов в мире. Переводчики: Р. Облонская, М. Энгельгардт, В. Рогов, И. Гурова, Э. Березина, З. Александрова, Н. Демурова, Н. Галь, И. Бернштейн, Р. Гальперина, М. Богословская, Е. Суриц, В. Хинкис, А. Старцев, М. Урнов, С. Маркиш, О. Холмская

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life’s work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative writing and scientific discourse, with unexpected forays into comedy and wordplay, this self-styled “prose poem” is a genre-defying masterpiece • Although it baffled the reading public of its time, Eureka found many prominent admirers, from Charles Baudelaire to W.H. Auden, and has since assembled an audience receptive to its unique appeal as a compendium of European thought that anticipated many current theories and discoveries while also pioneering many elements of science-fiction aesthetics

In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience, they took care to stay faithful to the language and vocabulary of the Bard as much as possible • Ranging from the high drama of Romeo and Juliet to the delightful fancy of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the humour of As You Like it, this collection of vivid adaptations - here presented in a lavish new edition - has been a much loved children's classic for more than two hundred years, offering budding readers an accessible route to Shakespeare's works

Пытки и мучения, тайные ловушки Инквизиции в каменной тюрьме, хрупкость человеческой жизни - всё это в рассказах Эдгара По, гениального поэта, создателя кошмаров, детективных и фантастических рассказов, так и не оцененного современниками в Америке. В сборник "Маска красной смерти" вошли одни из лучших новелл Эдгара Алана По. «Он почти всегда берет саму исключительную действительность, ставит своего героя в самое исключительное внешнее или психологическое положение, и с какою силою проницательности, с какою поражающею верностью рассказывает он о состоянии души этого человека! Кроме того, в Эдгаре По есть именно одна черта, которая отличает его решительно от всех других писателей и составляет резкую его особенность: это сила воображения». Ф. Достоевский