The Pit and Pendulum - Couverture souple

Poe, Edgar Allan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517653894 ISBN 13 : 9781517653897

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath.Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself would be welcome. What troubles him most is the eternal question: how will he die?Toledo Prison is notorious for the torture of the condemned. What minds have dreamed up the terror of the pit in the center of the cell? What is the significance of the painted figure of Time with his menacing pendulum? Why do the walls glow with heat?Experience with the narrator the intensity of his suffering when death seems inevitable but its form uncertain. Can anything, or anybody, help him?

Biographie de l'auteur

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Born in Boston to parents who were itinerant actors. At the age of two he was taken into the care of a wealthy tobacco exporter, John Allan, from whom the author took his middle name. His first collection of stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in 1840 and contains some of his most famous works.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517653894
• ISBN 13: 9781517653897
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28
• Éditeur: Classics 510