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The Pit and the Pendulum
Author:
Edgar Allan Poe (18)
Reader: Arthur Geghamyan (57)
Category:
Prose (621)
Short story (657)
American literature (59)
Translator:
Artashes Emin (13)
Age Recommendation: 13+
In sixteenth-century Spain, during the Inquisition, a man condemned for an undisclosed offense finds himself in a dark prison filled with deadly trials. His account focuses on the terror of confinement, the slow passage of time, and the will to survive. An environment designed to test both body and mind reveals how a person clings to hope when everything around him seems intended to break him.