Радиоспектакль по одноименному рассказу (новелле). Исполнители: Джордж – Яковлев Юрий; Легран – Никулин Валентин; Юпитер – Весник Евгений; Ведущая – Литвинова Наталья.
Радиоспектакль по одноименному рассказу (новелле). Исполнители: Джордж – Яковлев Юрий; Легран – Никулин Валентин; Юпитер – Весник Евгений; Ведущая – Литвинова Наталья.
Edgar Poe knew a thing about loss and was just forty years old when he passed away. But his legacy will never ever fade away. “The Raven” by Edgar Poe is the example of “fugitive poetry” where melancholy motif combine a musical rhythm with a strong and repetitive rhyme scheme to create an...
"Hop-Frog" (originally «Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs») is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes....
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of...
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's «The Tell-Tale Heart». In both, a murderer carefully conceals his...
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled «The Casque of Amontillado» [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year,...
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax, as it was published...
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a narrative short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine before being included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story is a work of detective...
Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator who agrees to visit his old friend. Legrand pulls the other two...
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as «The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy», is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He,...
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy...
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews...
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the author’s best-known short stories. It is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator who is at great pains to convince the reader of their lucidity; however, this only serves to accentuate their...
Убийство на улице Морг» (иногда переводится как «Убийства на улице Морг» или «Двойное убийство на улице Морг») – знаменитый рассказ американского писателя Эдгара По, который принято считать первым детективным произведением в истории литературы. Огюст Дюпен, молодой человек, обладающий незаурядными...
«Я в жизни своей не знавал такого шутника, как этот король. Он, кажется, только и жил для шуток. Рассказать забавную историю, и рассказать ее хорошо, – было вернейшим способом заслужить его милость. Оттого и случилось, что все его семь министров славились как отменные шуты…»
«Согласно последним известиям, полученным из Роттердама, в этом городе представители научно-философской мысли охвачены сильнейшим волнением. Там произошло нечто столь неожиданное, столь новое, столь несогласное с установившимися взглядами, что в непродолжительном времени – я в этом не сомневаюсь –...
«Согласно последним известиям, полученным из Роттердама, в этом городе представители научно-философской мысли охвачены сильнейшим волнением. Там произошло нечто столь неожиданное, столь новое, столь несогласное с установившимися взглядами, что в непродолжительном времени – я в этом не сомневаюсь –...
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