Биография Эдгара Аллана По на английском языке. Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

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1. Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe, outstanding romantic poet, critic, romancer and short story writer, was one of the first professional writers of the United States. He had a rare talent and in France and Russia of his days he was considered to be the only American poet of significance. Edgar Poe was born in Boston (Massachusetts) in ... Читать далее...
2. Биография Уолта Уитмена на английском языке. Biography of Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman is considered by many to be one of the greatest American poets. He was born in 1819; early in his life he worked as a printer, a teacher, a newspaper editor, and a carpenter. By 1841 he had become a full-time journalist, editing successfully several papers and writing prose and verse for different ... Читать далее...
3. Биография Рэя Брэдбери на английском языке. Biography of Ray BradburyRay Douglas Bradbury, a prominent American science fiction writer, was born in Illinois in 1920, but mostly lived in Los Angeles, California. There he graduated from high school, where he put out a school magazine entitled «Future Fantasies». His first story was published in 1941. Since then he has got many national awards and won ... Читать далее...
4. Биография Михаила Лермонтова на английском языке. Biography of Mikhail LermontovOne of Russia’s most celebrated poets of all times, Michael Lermontov was born in Moscow in the family of a nobleman. He spent his childhood and youth at Tarkhany, his grandmother’s estate in the province of Penza. In 1830 Lermontov entered Moscow University, but very soon had to leave it. Then he entered St. Petersburg ... Читать далее...
5. Биография Чарльза Диккенса на английском языке. Biography of Charles DickensCharles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, where his father was the oldest of a large family, eight in all. He got his education at a small day-school and from his mother, who was a well-educated woman. In 1821 the Dickens family moved to London. Mr. Dickens was heavily in debt. The few possessions ... Читать далее...
6. Биография Барака Обамы на английском языке. Biography of Barrack ObamaBarack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. With ... Читать далее...
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8. Биография Уильяма Шекспира на английском языке. Biography of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare is often called the world’s greatest playwright. He wrote comedies, tragedies and historical plays in England in the last part of the 16th and the early 17th century. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a businessman and the town’s mayor. His mother came from ... Читать далее...
9. Биография Александра Пушкина на английском языке. Biography of Alexander PushkinPushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England or Dante in Italy. Pushkin provided the standards for Russian arts and literature in the 19th century. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an upper-class family. In 1811 he entered a lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo. The education offered at ... Читать далее...
10. Биография Галилео Галилея на английском языке. Biography of Galileo GalileiGalileo is often called the founder of modern science. He made many discoveries in astronomy and physics and he built telescopes to study space. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. His father sent him to the university to study medicine, but young Galileo was more interested in science and mathematics. Galileo made ... Читать далее...
11. Биография Эндрю Уайета на английском языке. Biography of Andrew WyethAndrew Wyeth, one of the prominent American painters, was born in 1917. The son of illustrator N. C. Wyeth, Andrew is the leading member of the dynasty of painters that included his sisters, their husband and his own two sons. He won fame at the age of 12 for his illustrations of «Robin Hood». He ... Читать далее...
12. Биография Мэри Кассат на английском языке. Biography of Mary CassattMary Cassatt is the most popular women artist in the USA. She was born in 1845 in a town near Pittsburgh. She began her career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied from 1861 until 1864. She studied in Paris, too. Mary Cassatt began her career as a realistic painter. Later she ... Читать далее...
13. Edgar Allan Рое — Эдгар Алан ПоBest known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Рое deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time — important ... Читать далее...
14. Биография Константина Циолковского на английском языке. Biography of Konstantin TsiolkovskyKonstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, the founder of austronautics, was born in 1857 in the village of Izhevsk in Ryazan province. When he was ten he had scarlet fever, and was left permanently deaf. This had a great influence on his life. Only when Tsiolkovsky reached the age of fifteen he began to study elementary mathematics. At ... Читать далее...
15. Биография Вольфганга Амадея Моцарта на английском языке. Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest composers of the world. Schubert said that «the magic of his music lights the darkness of our lives». Haydn believed him to be «the greatest composer». His music enchants and amazes music lovers. He was only 35 when he died in 1791. He had composed some 626 ... Читать далее...
16. Von Kempelen and His Discovery на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeAfter the very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a few hurried remarks in reference to Von Kempelen’s discovery, I have any design to look at the ... Читать далее...
17. A Fable на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan Poe«Listen to me,» said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. «The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence. The waters of the river have a saffron and sickly hue; and they flow ... Читать далее...
18. Mystification на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeSlid, if these be your «passados» and «montantes,» I’ll have none o’ them. Ned Knowles. The Baron Ritzner von Jung was a noble Hungarian family, every member of which was more or less remarkable for talent of some description — the majority for that species of grotesquerie in conception of which Tieck, a scion of ... Читать далее...
19. Биография Альберта Эйнштейна на английском языке. Biography of Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a famous scientist who completely changed the way that people saw our world and the universe. Einstein created many theories which proved that things like gravity, light, energy and matter were connected with each other. At first, very few scientists could understand Einstein’s theories but as time passed other scientists showed that ... Читать далее...
20. Биография Клеопатры на английском языке. Biography of CleopatraCleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt. She was beautiful, intelligent and self-confident. She was not Egyptian but belonged to a Greek dynasty, that started with Ptolemy I. Cleopatra became a well-known because of her love affairs with two Roman rulers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra was born in 69 B. C. in ... Читать далее...
21. Биография Джона Кеннеди на английском языке. Biography of John KennedyOn November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May ... Читать далее...
22. Биография Франклина Рузвельта на английском языке. Biography of Franklin RooseveltAssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, «the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.» Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York-now a ... Читать далее...
23. The Sphinx на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeDuring the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his _cottage ornee_ on the banks of the Hudson. We had here around us all the ordinary means of summer amusement; and what with rambling in the ... Читать далее...
24. Morella на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeItself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single. Plato: Sympos. With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my soul from our first meeting, burned with fires it had never before known; but the fires were not of Eros, and ... Читать далее...
25. The Man of the Crowd на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeIt was well said of a certain German book that «_er lasst sich nicht lesen_» — it does not permit itself to be read. There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors and looking them piteously in the eyes ... Читать далее...
26. Биография Джорджа Буша на английском языке. Biography of George BushGeorge W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005. Before his Presidency, he served for 6 years as Governor of the State of Texas. President Bush was born ... Читать далее...
27. Биография Исаака Ньютона на английском языке. Biography of Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was one of the world’s greatest scientists. He did research in mathematics, physics, astronomy and many other fields. Newton was born in 1642. He worked on his family’s farm but was not really interested in farming. His father died before Isaac was born. In his childhood he spent much time with his grandmother. ... Читать далее...
28. Биография Пабло Пикассо на английском языке. Biography of Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art during his time. Early life Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. His father was a drawing teacher. At 10 Pablo became his father’s pupil and at the age ... Читать далее...
29. The Island of the Fay на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan Poe«La Musique,» says Marmontel, in those «Contes Moraux» which in all our translations, we have insisted upon calling «Moral Tales,» as if in mockery of their spirit-«la musique est le seul des talents qui jouissent de lui-meme; tous les autres veulent des temoins.» He here confounds the pleasure derivable from sweet sounds with the capacity ... Читать далее...
30. Berenice на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeDicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum forelevatas. Ebn Zaiat. Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch-as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is ... Читать далее...
31. Eleonora на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeI am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence-whether much that is glorious — whether all that is profound-does not spring from disease of thought-from moods of mind ... Читать далее...
32. Биография Юлия Цезаря на английском языке. Biography of Julius CaesarJulius Caesar was a Roman general and dictator who lived from 100 BC to 44 BC. He helped to make Rome a great empire. He was also a talented writer. Early life of Caesar His father, Gaius Caesar died when Caesar was 16. Caesar’s mother, Aurelia, influenced her son greatly. Although Caesar came from a ... Читать далее...
33. The Tell-Tale Heart на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeTRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in ... Читать далее...
34. The Imp of the Perverse на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeIn the consideration of the faculties and impulses — of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them. In the pure arrogance of the ... Читать далее...
35. The Oval Portrait на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeThe chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy ... Читать далее...
36. Биография Александра Македонского на английском языке. Biography of Alexander the GreatAlexander the Great was king of Macedonia and one of the greatest generals in history. He conquered the Persian Empire which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India. Although he died at the age of 33 he conquered most of the known world at that time and spread Greek ideas and customs to western Asia ... Читать далее...
37. The Masque of the Red Death на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan PoeThe «Red Death» had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body ... Читать далее...
38. Биография Уильяма Хогарта на английском языке. Biography of William HoggarthWilliam Hoggart is one of the greatest of English artists of the 18th century. He made his name as an artist painting «conversation pieces». These little pictures were very popular in England during the 18th century. They represented members of the same family or close friends having tea, playing cards, or simply talking to one ... Читать далее...
39. Биография Мартина Лютера Кинга на английском языке. Biography of Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King was a clergyman and one of the most prominent members of the civil rights movement in the 20th century. He was born on January 15, 1929. He became famous in the 1950 and 1960’s through opposition to racial segregation in the United States of America. King promoted non-violent methods of opposition such ... Читать далее...
40. Биография Томаса Мора на английском языке. Biography of Thomas MoreSir Thomas More, an outstanding public figure of the 16th century was a brilliant lawyer, a royal favourite and Chancellor of England. He was a son of a lawyer. A the age of 12 he went to serve in the household of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England; at 14 he went ... Читать далее...