An edition of The Tell-Tale Heart (1976)

The Tell-Tale Heart

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Cover of: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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An edition of The Tell-Tale Heart (1976)

The Tell-Tale Heart

First Edition (1)

by

  • ★★★★ 4.33 ·
  • 36 Ratings
  • 147 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 69 Have read

The murder of an old man is revealed after the murderer keeps hearing the continued beating of his victim's heart. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.

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Publisher
Creative Education
Language
English
Pages
31

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Subjects
Asesinato, Cuentos de terror estadounidenses, Ficción, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Murder in fiction, short stories, short story, Cartoons and comics, Emotions, fiction

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Cover of: The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart
2011, Creative Education
Hardcover in English - First Edition (1)
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Cover of: Le Cœur révélateur
Le Cœur révélateur
2008-10-25, Audiocite
Digital Audio in French
Cover of: The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart
1980, Creative Education
Hardcover in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Book Details

Published in

Mankato, MN

Edition Notes

Series
Creative short stories
Genre
Fiction
Copyright Date
2011

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.P7515 Te 2010, PZ7.P7515 Te 2011, PZ7.P7515Te 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
31p.
Number of pages
31

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23654598M
Internet Archive
telltaleheart0000poee_p6g0
ISBN 10
158341925X
ISBN 13
9781583419250
LCCN
2009027896
OCLC/WorldCat
429634711
Goodreads
58882288

Work Description

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.

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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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