The Pit and the Pendulum

9789752565043

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9789752565043

Yazar:

Edgar Allan Poe

Kağıt Cinsi:

1. Hamur

Baskı Sayısı:

1. Baskı

Basım Yılı:

2017

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“This is one of the scariest books I’ve ever read. I loved it!” Maryanne, 12
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