Джеймс Хогг – лучшие книги

Книга включает в себя романы: "Маддалена" Хораса Уолпола, "Комната с призраком" Анны Радклиф, "Нимфа ручья" Уильяма Бекфорда", "Вампир" Джона Полидори, "Магическое зеркало" Вальтера Скотта, "Железный саван" Уильяма Мадфорда, "Хелловин" А. Л. Роуз, "Мизантроп" Д. Д. Бересфорда и другие.

На русском языке впервые публикуется роман «Тайная исповедь и мемуары оправданного грешника» Джеймса Хогга, шотландского писателя и поэта первой половины XIX века. Произведение Хогга снискало значительную популярность лишь в ХХ веке и теперь по праву считается одним из шедевров готической литературы. Мрачная история, разворачивающаяся на рубеже XVII–XVIII веков, повествует о молодом шотландце, который в состоянии религиозной одержимости совершает жестокие преступления. Читателю предстоит самостоятельно разобраться, кто же такой этот загадочный незнакомец, толкающий главного героя в бездну зла.

Excerpt from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Preface and Annotations

This Paper, originally written for me in 1857, and published in Titan for July of that year, has not appeared in any collective edition of the author's works, British or American. It was his closing contribution to a series of three articles concerning Chinese affairs, prepared when our troubles with that Empire seemed to render war imminent. The first two were given in Titan for February and April, 1857, and then issued with additions in the form of a pamphlet which is now very scarce. It consisted of 152 pages thus arranged: - (1) Preliminary Note, i - iv; (2) Preface, pp. 3 - 68; (3) China (the two Titan papers), pp. 69 - 149; (4) Postscript, pp. 149 - 152.

In the posthumous supplementary volume (XVI.) of the collected works the third section was reprinted, but all the other matter was discarded - with a rather imperfect appreciation of the labour which the author had bestowed upon it, and his own estimate of the value of what he had condensed in this Series - as frequently expressed to me during its progress.

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