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The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales

Poe, Edgar Allan
Van Leer, David

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Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

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ISBN10: 0198827296
ISBN13: 9780198827290
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.

As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favor of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem mysterious in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter -- alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.

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