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The Pit and the Pendulum

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Pit and the Pendulum

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator is imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, though his specific crime remains unknown. Initially, he is in a semi-conscious, delirious...

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The Pit and the Pendulum

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum," when light enters the narrator's cell, he discovers that his initial perceptions were incorrect. The cell is smaller and square, not irregularly...

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