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The pit and the pendulum/Le puits et le pendule: (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue) by Edgar Allan Poe

The pit and the pendulum/Le puits et le pendule: (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)

Edgar Allan Poe

58 pages paperback 1842

42 editions

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The story depicts the Spanish Inquisition. An unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or what he has been arrested for. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as...

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