The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales

ISBN-13: 9780198827290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Edgar Allan Poe

Opis

Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales are classics of horror fiction, and created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. This selection places the most popular against travel narrative, essays, and political satires.

Recenzje

This is a fine introduction to not only the man himself but also the genre of Gothic fiction... Check it out if you have not already.

O autorze

David Van Leer taught at Cornell and Princeton Universities, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to The New Republic on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, and the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays (1986) and The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (1995).