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The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales
Engelsk Hardback
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales
Engelsk Hardback

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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe''s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe''s tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious'' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- ''The Pit and the Pendulum'', `The Fall of the House of Usher'', `The Masque of the Red Death'', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and `The Purloined Letter'' -- alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780198827290
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198827296
Udg. Dato:
23 aug 2018
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
205mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
23 aug 2018
Forfatter(e):
Af samme kreatør
Andet, 2019
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