The Pit and the Pendulum

by Edgar Allan Poe and Felix Bennett

The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath. Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself would be welcome. What troubles him most is the eternal question: how will he die? Toledo Prison is notorious for the torture of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906230803
• ISBN13: 9781906230807
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Real Reads
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary