"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. It has been edited in order to make it fit in with sir Christopher Lee´s narration. Cecere, Highland High School, NYĬopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. This is Edgar Allan Poe´s Tale 'The Pit and the Pendulum' with subtitles. Libraries that own anthologies of Poe tales will not be denying readers the most important material-the stories themselves-if they pass on this one. Lee The Pit and the Pendulum, de Edgar Allan Poe en lnea en Bookmate The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The selections include "The Gold-Bug," "The Oval Portrait," "The Cask of Amontillado," "Some Words with a Mummy," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." In some instances, as when there is a historical connection, the annotations are particularly enlightening, e.g., the information about the Inquisition and its relationship to "The Pit and the Pendulum." To maintain continuity, readers may prefer to read through the stories first and then return to the sidebars or vice versa. Grade 8 Up-This series entry presents Poe's unabridged text accompanied by annotated color and black-and-white illustrations and reproductions of various aspects of life during the stories' time periods.
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