Американская классика

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.

The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies, as corpses arising, through scientific means, as anima…

"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 …

Один из самых известных юмористов в мировой литературе, О. Генри создал уникальную панораму американской жизни на рубеже XIX–XX веков, в гротескных ситуациях передал контрасты и парадоксы своей э…

Один из самых известных юмористов в мировой литературе, О. Генри создал уникальную панораму американской жизни на рубеже XIX–XX веков, в гротескных ситуациях передал контрасты и парадоксы своей э…

"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 …

Тарзан – вымышленный персонаж, созданный писателем Эдгаром Райсом Берроузом и впервые появившийся в книге «Тарзан, приёмыш обезьян». Журнальная публикация романа состоялась в 1912 году, а в 1914 …

Впервые роман «Праздник, который всегда с тобой» был издан в 1965 году, уже после смерти Хемингуэя. Автор успел закончить книгу и даже написал к ней предисловие, но не успел внести последние прав…

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…

Вашингтон Ирвинг – первый американский писатель, получивший мировую известность и завоевавший молодой американской литературе «право гражданства» в сознании многоопытного и взыскательного европей…

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…