Американская литература

"Celephais" was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in …

Миранде двенадцать лет, и у нее, конечно, хватает проблем. Мама, которая не готовит завтраков и одевается как девочка, лучший друг, который больше не хочет быть другом, одноклассники, которые вдр…

"A Horse's Tale" is a novel written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry.

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 …

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 …

A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ― as Twain's own fiction …

Томас Пинчон – наряду с Сэлинджером, «великий американский затворник», один из крупнейших писателей мировой литературы XX, а теперь и XXI века, после первых же публикаций единодушно признанный кл…

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…

В 1918 году Эрнест Хемингуэй ушел добровольцем в воюющую Европу и стал шофером американского отряда Красного креста на итало-австрийском фронте. В июле 1918 года, Хемингуэй получил серьезное ране…

«Ангелы опустошения» – книга, которая подводит итоги не только первых двух романов трилогии – «На дороге» и «Бродяги Дхармы», – но и всей буйной, яркой и своеобразной культуры американского битни…

"The Raven" is a narrative poem. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity. One night the…

"The Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, …

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped …

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks of monolithic stone now serve only for grey t…

The story begins with the woman feeling outside of society and then Hermes appears and tells her that she has, though her reading of poetry learned something that only a few others have, that the…

"The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the entrance to a mausoleum, belonging to the family Hyde, whose nearby family mansion had burnt…

The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While t…

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…