The Pit And The Pendulum: Short Story

Name: The Pit And The Pendulum: Short Story
Rating: 4.461538314819336 (26 reviews)

Edgar Allan Poe

Jan 2013 · Sold by Harper Collins

4.5

26 reviews

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Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.

A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

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4.5

26 reviews

nineva gutierrez

March 29, 2017

I ALWAYS LOVE HIS BOOKS. have not finnish reading the pit and the pendulum, please!

Antony Curtis

March 26, 2019

One of my favourite books

Kyle Bates

September 1, 2015

Absolutely adore this story

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About the author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

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