[PDF] The Pit And The Pendulum eBook

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141918950

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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8726586924

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It is almost impossible to escape the Spanish Inquisition alive. However, Edgar Allan Poe’s unnamed narrator, after suffering innumerable tortures upon his body and soul in the hands of his tormenters, sees the light of the day at the very end of his sanity’s tether. Even despite the lack of supernatural elements, "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842) has enjoyed and influenced several notable movie adaptations. Animations such as The "Flinstones", TV series like "Crime Scene Investigation", to films like Roger Corman’s "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961), starring Vincent Price and some torture methods found in the "Saw" franchise, the story’s famous pendulum scene is a rather fruitful source of inspirations. Yet, despite the terrific torments, the story focuses primarily on how terror is implicitly depicted through the workings of the mind. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307781402

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A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.

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Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434242609

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A tale of terror exploring the dizzying highs and horrifying lows of a prisoner sentenced to death.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471152499

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The perfect Christmas gift! Curl up by the fire with this chilling collection of tales from one of the original masters of mystery and the macabre... 'Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! --do you mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.' The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this timeless collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humour and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, and his finest lyric and narrative poetry -The Ravenand Annabel Lee, to name just a few - that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century.

Author : Daniel M. Fendel
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Algebra
ISBN :

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Consists of textbook and individual teacher's guides to each unit.

Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Visions of Death
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781887368940

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RICHARD MATHESON'S EDGAR ALLAN SCRIPTS THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER WHICH WERE FILMED BY ROGER CORMAN

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Children's stories, American.
ISBN : 9780881010572

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An illustrated collection of some of Poe's sinister tales, including "The Black Cat, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Premature Burial, " and a few of his poems.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781410104946

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Here Edgar Allan Poe writes how he came to produce his poem.