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The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum
Oct 30, 2024 1:27 PM

Author:Edgar Allan Poe,Peter Ackroyd

The Pit and the Pendulum

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.

Reviews

Dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature

—— Uncut

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

—— Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

—— The Times

Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility

—— Lionel Shriver , Financial Times

(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar

—— Independent

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output

—— Daily Telegraph

You should buy this book

—— Spectator

Dark, funny and disturbing

—— London Review of Books
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