{"product_id":"the-pit-and-the-pendulum-and-other-tales-hardcover","title":"The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Van Leer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Van Leer \u003c\/strong\u003ehas taught at both Cornell and Princeton University, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eEmerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays\u003c\/em\u003e (1986) and \u003cem\u003eThe Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society\u003c\/em\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753976037664,"sku":"9780198827290","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c171e91e456f2ce11bea2626be7e62b0.webp?v=1780030725","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-pit-and-the-pendulum-and-other-tales-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}