The Pit and the Pendulum: The Essential Poe Edgar Allan Poe Author
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Edgar Allan Poe
                                                                
                                    2021-04-07 06:13:01
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    The Pit and the Pendulum: The Essential Poe Edgar Allan Poe Author
                                            
                                                            by Edgar Allan Poe
                                                        
                                2021-04-07 06:13:01
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                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 Us...
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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.
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