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Poe Edgar Allan - The Pit And The Pendulum And Other Tales - Hardcover
Poe Edgar Allan - The Pit And The Pendulum And Other Tales - Hardcover
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Description: 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. Yet as well as being highly enjoyable Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour 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.
Title: The Pit And The Pendulum And Other Tales
Author(s): Poe Edgar Allan, Van Leer, David (Professor Of English And American Literature, University Of California, Davis)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198827290
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Category: Short Stories
Description: 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. Yet as well as being highly enjoyable Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour 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.
Title: The Pit And The Pendulum And Other Tales
Author(s): Poe Edgar Allan, Van Leer, David (Professor Of English And American Literature, University Of California, Davis)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198827290
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2018
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Category: Short Stories
