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The Pit and the Pendulum - Couverture souple

Poe, Edgar Allan

 
9781906230807: The Pit and the Pendulum
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1906230803 ISBN 13 : 9781906230807
Editeur : Real Reads, 2014

Synopsis

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 centre 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?

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À propos de l'auteur

Edgar Allan Poe (19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849) was an American poet and novelist best known for his gothic tales of mystery.

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Éditeur
Real Reads
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1906230803
ISBN 13 
9781906230807
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Bennett Felix
Nombre de pages
64
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