Американская литература

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 t…

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 191…

В сборник вошли рассказы Уильяма Сидни Портера (1862–1910), известного читателям как О’Генри. До сих пор вызывают интерес стиль и особенности языка ам…

The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in hi…

Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, «The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories» provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually h…

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 …

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks …

Роман "Один из наших" – история молодого человека, который всеми силами стремится освободиться из гнетущей его патриархальной атмосферы жизни на Средн…

"In Defense of Harriet Shelley" is an excellent literary classic for all ages. Twain took much of his ideas and inspiration for his stories and tall t…

За свою короткую и яркую жизнь Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд (1896–1940) увековечил блистательную эпоху, названную им «веком джаза», в поразительном литер…

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

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 so…

Предлагаем вашему вниманию аудиокнигу «Жареные зелёные помидоры», созданную на студии АРДИС. Роман современной американской писательницы Фэнни Флэгг, …

A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are in…

У Дуга Свитека и так жизнь не сахар: один брат служит во Вьетнаме, у второго криминальные наклонности, а с отцом лучше не спорить – не то врежет. И ту…

Тайна, вокруг которой закручены все события в "Революции", – судьба маленького дофина, сына Людовика XVI Луи-Шарля. История невинно замученного узника…

"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 famil…

Предлагаем вашему вниманию аудиокнигу «Дымка», созданную на студии АРДИС. Повесть американского писателя, художника и ковбоя Виля Джемса рассказывает …

One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, f…

Все мы – рабы собственных инстинктов, и, зная это, нами легко манипулируют политики, журналисты, маркетологи. Линус Максвелл – один из таких манипулят…

В 1918 году Эрнест Хемингуэй ушел добровольцем в воюющую Европу и стал шофером американского отряда Красного креста на итало-австрийском фронте. В июл…

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),…

Роман «Обнаженная в зеркале» (1953) – последнее и наиболее зрелое произведение известного американского писателя и поэта Джорджа Сильвестра Вирека (18…

A great writing by Mark Twain based on the short story of classic humour.

"Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) which he subtitled «A Prose Poem», though it has also bee…

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

Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his me…

«– Войдите! – сказал редактор. Дверь редакционного кабинета тоскливо заскрипела под неловким и непривычным напором нерешительной руки. Это продолжалос…

The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it …

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of character…

"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.

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 comm…

Первое в российском литературоведении монографическое исследование, посвященное особенностям жанровой поэтики постмодернистской литературы США. Автор …

"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Con…

"What is Man?" was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it…

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 …

Typical Mark Twain slightly caustic, complex humor. Six of Mark Twain's recollections his early experiences in newspaper work on topics such as his fi…

Художественный текст – это словесное воплощение авторского образа мира, который объективируется в форме и содержании произведения, т. е. системе ключе…

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

"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, aft…

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.

«Финансист» – первая книга «Трилогии желания» выдающегося американского писателя Теодора Драйзера. Главный герой романа – Фрэнк Каупервуд, придержива…

The book bears no relationship to Twain's actual life. The two short stories present fictional characters who are supposedly part of Twain's lineage.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is sometimes considered…