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English Reading - Чтение на английском The Gold-Bug - dgarAllan POE


Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Studied at the University of Virginia, but soon left it, worked as a clerk, newspaper writer. Later was enlisted in the US Army as private. He wrote Tamurlane and Other Poems (1827), Politian (1835), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), The Balloon-Hoax (1844),The Philosophy of Composition (1846), Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848),The Poetic Principle (1848),The Light-House (1849).

What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad!
He hath been bitten by the Tarantula.

All in the Wrong. 

This island is a very singular one. It consists of little else than the sea sand, and is about three miles long. Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile. It is separated from the main land by a scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime, a favourite resort of the marsh- hen. The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. No trees of any magnitude are to be seen. Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where are some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the sea-coast, is covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle, so much prized by the horticulturists of England. The shrub here often attains the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and forms an almost impenetrable coppice, burdening the air with its fragrance.

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