Американская классика

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 …

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…

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered…

Typical Mark Twain slightly caustic, complex humor. Six of Mark Twain's recollections his early experiences in newspaper work on topics such as his first editorship at age 13, the weaponry needed…

Written at the end of Twain's career, Extracts from Adam's Diary was first published in 1897. Twain's Adam was based on himself.

Книга представляет собой краткий конспект романа «Атлант расправил плечи», с комментариями злого читателя, который потратил массу времени на чтение этой разрекламированной книжицы, и хочет навсег…

В сборник вошли популярнейшие юмористические новеллы О. Генри из сборника «Благородный жулик» – «Супружество как точная наука», «Спрут на берегу» (знакомый российскому читателю под названием «Тре…

«– Войдите! – сказал редактор. Дверь редакционного кабинета тоскливо заскрипела под неловким и непривычным напором нерешительной руки. Это продолжалось до тех пор, пока разгневанный редактор сбор…

«Финансист» – первая книга «Трилогии желания» выдающегося американского писателя Теодора Драйзера. Главный герой романа – Фрэнк Каупервуд, придерживаясь принципа, что в жизни и бизнесе для дости…