The Pit and the Pendulum

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141918950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
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.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Author:
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1434242609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
A tale of terror exploring the dizzying highs and horrifying lows of a prisoner sentenced to death.

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307781402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.

Journeys Through Bookland

Author: Charles H. Sylvester
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434478068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
A collection of various pieces of poetry and prose.

Poems and Essays

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description

Interactive Mathematics Program

Author: Daniel M. Fendel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Consists of textbook and individual teacher's guides to each unit.

Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881010572
Category : Children's stories, American.
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
An illustrated collection of some of Poe's sinister tales, including "The Black Cat, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Premature Burial, " and a few of his poems.

Visions of Death

Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher: Visions of Death
ISBN: 9781887368940
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
RICHARD MATHESON'S EDGAR ALLAN SCRIPTS THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER WHICH WERE FILMED BY ROGER CORMAN

How I Wrote the Raven

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781410104946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Here Edgar Allan Poe writes how he came to produce his poem.

Ten Great Mysteries

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590085953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Ten tales by the master of the macabre.