The Pit and the Pendulum: The Essential Poe (Penguin Classics)
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction

This selection of Poe&apos;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&apos;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.


Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Grade level: 9 and up
Reading age: 14 - 18 years
Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English
File size: 2965 KB
Publisher: Penguin
Print length: 239 pages
Publication date: June 4, 2009
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Edgar Allan Poe Peter Ackroyd