The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories (Whole Story) - Hardcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670887064 ISBN 13: 9780670887064

Publisher: Puffin, 1999

Synopsis

"The Gold Bug" and "The Oval Portrait" are two of the pieces included in this compilation of Poe's stories, which includes additional background information to place the stories in their historical context

About this title

About the Author:

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670887064
• ISBN 13: 9780670887064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160