In the last moment he was saved by the French army. Gradually the walls driving him into the pit. But he didn’t capitulate and he rubbed his rope with the meat and let some rats to bite the rope. All several days he watched a terrible pendulum that was swinging on the ceiling above him and moving down. He could move only his head and one hand to be able to eat some meat from a plate on the floor. When he woke up he was tied to wooden desk. Once he stumbled over something and felt on the edge of the pit. He explored the room and he found a pit in a middle of the prison, but he didn’t know how far from him it is. He was put in the dark room where he couldn’t see something. Narrator (The Pit and the Pendulum) A victim of the Catholic Inquisition, he faints upon hearing his death sentence. It is short story about prisoner who was sentence to the death. He was also master of psychological stories. He invited new literature form – detective stories. Poe was crushed by Virginia’s death and he closed up before the world. When he was 26 years old he married his 13 years old cousin Virginia but in 1842 she felt an ill with tuberculosis and she died soon. He tried to write poetry (The Raven-1845). He became successful literary critics but he wanted be writer. His career began with collection of poems Tamarlane and other poem (1827). He was in debts because he was drinking and gambling. He spent some time in England and then he returned to America and studied at the University of Virginia.Īfter first year at university he had to leave university because he had not enough money. He was taken by a rich family of Richmond, the Allans but they never adopted him. Answers for poes the and the pendulum crossword clue, 3 letters.
His parents died when he was just a little boy. He was born in Boston as son of two actors.
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