The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story,...
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This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780194790871 (0194790878)
Publish date: March 1st 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition language: English
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, gothic, north-americas, play-dramatisation, re-read, victorian, re-visit-2015, paper-read, film-only, autumn-2015, halloween-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, spain-toledo Read from January 01, 1986 to October 11, 2015, read count: 3 Opening: I WAS SICK --...
bookshelves: boo-scary, classic, gothic, north-americas, play-dramatisation, re-read, victorian Read in June, 2009 Not a re-read but a re-watch of the film whilst I walk on the treadmill.1961 film with Vincent Price - how scrummy.
I thought that The Pit and the Pendulum was a bit melodramatic, and I am not really sure what our protagonist was in the pit for. Heck, I'm not even sure who put him in there. So I was starting to wonder, "Why do I like Edgar Allan Poe, again? Is it possible that I only thought I liked him, but I...
It's Edgar Allan Poe. What can I say? He's an amazingly talented writer.
It's gruesome, it's horrible, it's painful and it's gross. Totally loved it.
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