Golden beetle. Novels

Edgar Allan Po (1809-1849) is an American writer and poet who had a huge impact on the genre of psychological prose and endowing American romanticism with mystical and irrational features. His influence was recognized by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Howard Lovecraft, because he essentially anticipated the appearance of a detective and science fiction. However, the writer himself did not indulge in life: lack of money, non -recognition and depression overtook him constantly ... Edgar was born in Boston, in a family of actors, but lost his parents early, becoming the adopted son of the childless couple of Allan merchants. Poe was an exemplary student: he was well given languages, he read Virgil and Horace in Latin, Homer in Greek, loved John Milton, began to try to write himself, entered the University of Virgin. However, the study had to quit - the guardian refused to pay unexpected debts of an unlucky student. Having quarreled with his family and was left without money, the 18-year-old signed an army contract, becoming an ordinary American artillery. The first year of service was held on the island of Sullivan, where Fort Moulshie was located, who later became a place of events in the story of the Golden Beetle. This story, based on the then fashionable topic of cryptography,, who loved the ciphers and well versed in them, wrote for the first issue of his magazine The Stylus - having worked in different publications as a critic and editor, he dreamed of his own. Dreams were not destined to come true, and a year later a disappointed writer, desperately in need of funds, sent a story to a literary competition to the magazine. The Golden Beetle brought the author $ 100, victory and fame for about 200 years in advance (but very modest during his lifetime) A little earlier, a short story was written “The Fall of the House of the Escers", whose painful phantasmagoria is reflected in the dreary doom and excessive impressionability of the hero, Roderick Escher. A small horror-none-to-nine “frog "” (the original name" jump-cut, or eight shackled orangutans") is one of the last gloomy fairy tales of Edgar, who died at 40 years old. The causes of the death of the writer are still unknown