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The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath.Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator…

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his «tal…

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the detai…

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder …

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British her…

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is sometimes considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.…

"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled «A Prose Poem», though it has also been subtitled as «An Essay on the Material and …

One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets for distin…

A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried…

The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untram…

Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, «The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories» provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from «Advice to Young Girls…

Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but real…

Поэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994)» лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них – знаменитый "Стоунер", книга с необычной и счастливой судьбой. Вперв…

Поэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994)» лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них – знаменитый "Стоунер", книга с необычной и счастливой судьбой. Вперв…

Тайна, вокруг которой закручены все события в "Революции", – судьба маленького дофина, сына Людовика XVI Луи-Шарля. История невинно замученного узника Тампля считается одной из самых позорных стр…

Тайна, вокруг которой закручены все события в "Революции", – судьба маленького дофина, сына Людовика XVI Луи-Шарля. История невинно замученного узника Тампля считается одной из самых позорных стр…

За свою короткую и яркую жизнь Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд (1896–1940) увековечил блистательную эпоху, названную им «веком джаза», в поразительном литературном наследии – романах «Великий Гэтсби», …

У Дуга Свитека и так жизнь не сахар: один брат служит во Вьетнаме, у второго криминальные наклонности, а с отцом лучше не спорить – не то врежет. И тут еще переезд в дурацкий городишко Мэрисвилл.…

У Дуга Свитека и так жизнь не сахар: один брат служит во Вьетнаме, у второго криминальные наклонности, а с отцом лучше не спорить – не то врежет. И тут еще переезд в дурацкий городишко Мэрисвилл.…

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette. The story is a delightful spoof of the mystery genre, then in its infancy, introducing the reader to Sherlock Holmes as he has never …