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The Premature Burial [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] by Edgar Allan Poe
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Download Description Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. Reader Reviews Changing of style, October 11, 2002 Reviewer: J R Zullo from S“o Paulo, Brazil Poe's main theme in his short stories are clearly the fear everyone has about being buried alive and the passivity of being in such a position, and he deals with it in stories such as "The fall of the House of Usher", "The black cat", "The cask of Amontillado", "The pit and the pendulum". In "The premature burial", Poe divides the story in two parts. In the first, he discusses the theme, presenting various real accounts (real?) of people being buried and then brought back to life by one event or another. In the second part, a man fixed with the idea and the terror of being buried alive because of his cataleptic condition, tells his own experience and how he overcame it. Some of Poe's tales have this parts where his intent is to mix reality with fantasy. but the reader never knows if the reality is really real, or if it is just another part of his immense immagination thrown into the story to get the reader thinking. An interesting tale by the master of the gothic-romantic horror-fantasy. Grade 8.9/10
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