Человек, который съел феникса. Хроники Тенистой Долины

Ėdvard Dzhon Morton Draks Plankett, 18-ĭ baron Danseĭni, publikovavshiĭsi͡a kak lord Danseĭni, - znamenityĭ avtor mnozhestva romanov, pʹes i literaturnykh skazok, stoi͡avshiĭ u istokov samogo zhanra fėntezi. Edva li ne pervym v evropeĭskoĭ literature on sozdal t͡selyĭ "vtorichnyĭ mir" - so svoeĭ kosmologieĭ, mifologieĭ, istorieĭ i geografieĭ. Ego mifologii͡a povlii͡ala na Lavkrafta, Tolkina i Borkhesa, a paradoksalʹnyĭ i͡umor, postoi͡annai͡a igra s chitatelʹskimi ozhidanii͡ami - na Nila Geĭmana i na vsi͡u sovremennui͡u ironicheskui͡u fėntezi. V dannoĭ knige vashemu vnimanii͡u predlagai͡utsi͡a tri sbornika mastera - "Pi͡atʹdesi͡at odna istorii͡a", "Rasskazy trekh polushariĭ", "Chelovek, kotoryĭ sʺel feniksa", - a takzhe chetyre romana: dilogii͡a "Khroniki Tenistoĭ Doliny" ("Don Rodriges, ili Khroniki Tenistoĭ Doliny", "Tenʹ sluzhanki"), "Blagoslovenie Pana", "Prokli͡atie Vedunʹi". Zdesʹ irlandskiĭ i͡unosha, sʺevshiĭ bessmertnogo feniksa, nachinaet videtʹ volshebnui͡u iznanku mira, tikhai͡a derevni͡a v angliĭskoĭ glubinke poddaetsi͡a charam drevnego boga Pana, a potomstvennai͡a vedʹma nasylaet prokli͡atie na torfopererabatyvai͡ushchiĭ sindikat. . . Chastʹ proizvedeniĭ publikuetsi͡a po-russki vpervye ili v novykh perevodakh, ostalʹnye - v novoĭ redakt͡sii. Izdanie soprovozhdaetsi͡a illi͡ustrat͡sii͡ami znamenitogo khudozhnika-skazochnika Sidni Saĭma, sdelannymi dli͡a pervykh publikat͡siĭ knig Danseĭni.

Edward John Morton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, published as Lord Dunsany, is a famous author of many novels, plays and literary fairy tales, who stood at the origins of the fantasy genre itself. He was perhaps the first in European literature to create a whole "secondary world" with his cosmology, mythology, history and geography. His mythology influenced Lovecraft, Tolkien, and Borges, and his paradoxical humor and constant play with readers' expectations influenced Neil Gaiman and all modern ironic fantasy. In this book, we offer you three collections of the master — "Fifty—one Stories", "Tales of the Three Hemispheres", "The Man who Ate the Phoenix", as well as four novels: the Chronicles of Shady Valley dilogy ("Don Rodriguez, or the Chronicles of Shady Valley", "The Shadow of the Maid"), "The Blessing of Pan", "The Curse of the Witch". Here, an Irish young man who has eaten an immortal phoenix begins to see the magical underside of the world, a quiet village in the English countryside succumbs to the charms of the ancient god Pan, and a hereditary witch casts a curse on a peat-processing syndicate. . . Some of the works are published in Russian for the first time or in new translations, while the rest are in a new edition. The publication is accompanied by illustrations by the famous storyteller Sidney Sime, made for the first publications of Dunsany's books.