The Pit and the Pendulum (Abridged)

The Pit and the Pendulum (Abridged)

Title: The Pit and the Pendulum (Abridged)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe & Gill Tavner
Release: 2024-10-05
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Kids & Young Adults
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The Pit and the Pendulum (Abridged) Edgar Allan Poe & Gill Tavner
The world's greatest classics retold for children.  

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 condemned. What minds have dreamed up the terror of the pit in the centre of the cell? What is the significance of the painted figure of Time with his menacing pendulum? Why do the walls glow with heat? 

Experience with the narrator the intensity of his suffering when death seems inevitable but its form uncertain. Can anything, or anybody, help him?

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