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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Published: 2024-01-29
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 656133115X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-02-16
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307781402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.
Author: Jennifer Adams
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781423637660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Edgar, the mischievous toddler, accidentally breaks a statue while roughhousing with his sister, he must decide whether to tell their mother the truth--and Lenore must decide whether or not to tattle.
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Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1434230236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetold in graphic novel form, the narrator tells the reader about the murder he committed, and the terrifying aftermath.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1438119224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of critical essays on Poe's novel, The tell-tale heart, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0755148355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tell-Tale Heart strips away myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, providing a fresh assessment of the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him – a man struggling to make a living and whose life was beset by tragedy, such that he was driven to excessive drinking and unhealthy relationships.
Author: Edgar Poe
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 1613109903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Silverman
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780521422437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Author: Jill Dawson
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1444731106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 One heart, two lives... When a teenager dies in an accident in rural Cambridgeshire, it affords Patrick, a fifty-year-old professor, drinker and womaniser, the chance of a life-saving heart transplant. But as Patrick recovers, he has the odd feeling that his old life 'won't have him'. He becomes bewitched by the story of his heart, ever more curious about the boy who donated it, his ancestors, the Fenland he grew up in. What exactly has Patrick been given?
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 1443423335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
