Edgar Allan Poe`s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. In "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", "A Predicament", "The ...
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Издание представляет собой полное собрание рассказов известного американского писателя Эдгара Аллана По (1809—1849).
Наибольшую известность он получил за свои «мрачные»...
Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popu...
A unique luxury edition of some of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories, Tales of the Macabre takes the reader into the heart of a dozen stories, including The Fall of T...
Frederick Rolfe, who early in his career also published under the name "Baron Corvo," became famous for his Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which an Englishman is unexpecte...
Here are two favorite stories by "the father of American literature" exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illus...
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Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant sh...
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combi...
Herminia Barton, the Cambridge-educated daughter of a clergyman, frees herself from her parents' influence, moves to London and starts living alone. As she is not a woman ...
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It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.
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Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankin...
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'the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him'
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