The Pit and The Pendulum: Simplified for Modern Readers (Accelerated Reader AR Quiz No. 7934)
-“The Pit and the Pendulum” is the Edgar Allan Poe gothic short story that continues to fascinate readers with its nightmarish chamber of horrors. -The language of over 170 years ago has been updated making Poe’s difficult text easily understood by today’s readers. -Every effort has been made to...
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-“The Pit and the Pendulum” is the Edgar Allan Poe gothic short story that continues to fascinate readers with its nightmarish chamber of horrors.
-The language of over 170 years ago has been updated making Poe’s difficult text easily understood by today’s readers.
-Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible--only word order and difficult vocabulary have been changed.
-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text.
-Biographical information on Edgar Allan Poe is included.
-Accelerated Reader AR Quiz No. 7934 EN Fiction IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 1.0.
-Modern readers will better understand and appreciate the story of a man’s terror.
-For more short stories in easy to understand modern English search for “George Lakon.”
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00F9WRIPY
Publish date: 2014-01-17
Pages no: 21
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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