A complete collection of stories and stories. According to Edgar Allan

The collection includes all the stories and novels of the classic of American literature Edgar Allan in (1809–1849) in translations of Sergey Yuryevich Afonkin, Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (1867–1942), Lev Ignatievich Umans (1858 or 1859 - not earlier than 1912) and Mikhail) and Mikhail) Aleksandrovich Engelhardt (1861–1915).

The creative heritage of the classic of American and world literature Edgar Allan in (1809–1849) was predetermined both by his own fate and the era in which he lived. The period between the Second War of Independence (1812–1815) and the Civil War in the United States (1861–1865) is a time when the romantic image of a typical American, a freedom -loving rebel, challenging the Puritan theocracy, a fighter for independence and a lonely settler, mastering vast western territories , began to inevitably supplement the features of naked pragmatism, individualism, cynical cruelty. America was changing, although this deep process was not noticed and was seriously appreciated even by the most advanced and insightful public. At the same time, the future writer early became an orphan, and his new parents did not at all complain the difficult nature and artistic nature of his adopted son; He was deprived of communication and financial support, and in adulthood the young man entered a single, who did not complete his training and had already experienced a lot of serious blows.

Only a powerful and multifaceted talent can support a person at such an unfavorable start. Edgar in became the first professional writer in America. He began as a poet, first became known as a prose writer, and then gave the main forces of editorial and journalistic work, gaining the ambiguous fame "Criticism with a tomahawk writing synical acid." Reading America dubbed the writer “maniac and renegade, devoid of moral principles”; His life path was accompanied by lack of money, scandals, misfortunes, health problems, and after death, his work, in fact, was forgotten. - In Europe, which has much more developed literature than America of those years. His innovative ideas had a mighty influence on the development of entire directions: Edgar of the Pershol can rightfully be considered the founder of a modern detective, science fiction, psychological prose, mysticism, Gothic, decadence literature (not to mention the tangible contribution to cosmology and cryptography); In the unique and still not fully solved lines of the American poet and novelist, such masters of the pen as Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne, Conan-Dols, Bales, Dostoevsky, Nabokov were inspired by inspiration. The fact that Edgar software has become one of the most illustrated authors of its time is also indicative: thousands of talented artists turned to his works, and one of the first - the genius Eduard Mane and Gustav Dorea.