The Pit And The Pendulum

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561330676
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pit and The Pendulum written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces psychological and physical torture in a dark cell. He struggles to survive deadly traps, including a sharp pendulum and a deep well, using his ingenuity to escape.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141918950
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pit and the Pendulum written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1434242609
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pit and the Pendulum written by and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2013 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of terror exploring the dizzying highs and horrifying lows of a prisoner sentenced to death.

Author : Daniel M. Fendel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interactive Mathematics Program written by Daniel M. Fendel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of textbook and individual teacher's guides to each unit.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726586924
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pit and the Pendulum written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems and Essays written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307781402
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harold Beaver
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141922060
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe written by Harold Beaver and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall' relates a man's balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', while the great essay 'Eureka' outlines Poe's own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the genealogy of science fiction, or to understand the complexity of Poe's own creative vision

Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Visions of Death
ISBN 13 : 9781887368940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Death written by Richard Matheson and published by Visions of Death. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448181984
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault's Pendulum written by Umberto Eco and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth