Golden beetle. Stories

Edgar Allan Po is one of the brightest American writers of the XIX century. “At the same time gloomy and brilliant,” according to Charles Baudelaire, Edgar in his stories “absurdities, brought to the grotesque, terrible, which was given a shade of terrible, wit, erected to the degree of Burlesque, unusual, turned into strange and mysterious”. Together with all this, stories in possess not only a special atmosphere, but also depth, revealing the most important theme of the tragedy of human life for world literature.
Whatever stories in: melancholy Gothic, detective or parody - they invariably fascinate the reader, excite the imagination and give a reason to reflect after reading. The stories included in this collection accompany the illustrations of Mikhail Petrov, who embodied the images created by the writer in several strokes