The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins
Buy from…
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from a dark and brilliant genius.
Other books in the series
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins
Randolph Stow
Mother Tongue: Popular Penguins
Bill Bryson
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde
Persuasion: Popular Penguins
Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins
Charles Dickens
Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins
Jane Austen
Hard Times: Popular Penguins
Charles Dickens
The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins
Rudyard Kipling
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.