https://knigausa.com Just another WordPress site Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:25:49 +0000 ru-RU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://knigausa.com/product/the-collected-tales-and-poems-of/ Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:03 +0000 https://knigausa.com/product/the-collected-tales-and-poems-of/ Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather’s disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities — journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) — he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem’s instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters — a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. Читать дальше…

]]> 1380956 https://knigausa.com/product/harper-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 08:00:25 +0000 https://knigausa.com/product/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination/ Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Poe Edgar Allan)‘Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.’Including Poe’s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author’s macabre works.Considered to be one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular tales.‘The Gold-Bug’ is the only tale that was popular in his lifetime, whereas ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ became more widely read after his death.Focussing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud’s later theories on the psyche, Poe’s Gothic terror stories are considered masterpieces the world over.История тайн и воображения (По Эдгар Аллан) классики.»И все же я не более уверен в том, что моя душа жива, чем в том, что извращенность есть одно из первобытных побуждений человеческого сердца, одна из неделимых первичных способностей или чувств, определяющих характер человека».Включая самые страшные, гротескные и навевающие ужас рассказы По, «Сказки о тайнах и воображении» — это полное собрание макабрических произведений печально известного автора.Считающийся одним из первых американских писателей, создавших жанр детективной фантастики, сборник включает некоторые из его самых популярных сказок. «Золотой жук» — единственная сказка, которая была популярна при его жизни, тогда как «Черный кот», «Яма и маятник» и «Убийства на улице Морг» стали более широко читаемыми после его смерти.Сосредоточив внимание на внутреннем конфликте людей, власти мертвых над живыми и психологических исследованиях более темных человеческих эмоций, которые, кажется, предвосхищают более поздние теории Зигмунда Фрейда о психике, готические истории По об ужасах считаются шедеврами во всем мире.

]]> 1449321 https://knigausa.com/product/the-collected-works-of-edgar-allan-poe/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:06:03 +0000 https://knigausa.com/product/the-collected-works-of-edgar-allan-poe/ Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather’s disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities — journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) — he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem’s instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters — a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.

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