Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 656133115X
In 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
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307781402
A 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 : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0755148355
The 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 : Jennifer Adams
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Behavior
ISBN : 9781423637660
When 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.
Author : Edgar Poe
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1613109903
Author : Kenneth Silverman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521422437
A 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 : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9781885418036
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the author’s best-known short stories. It is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator who is at great pains to convince the reader of their lucidity; however, this only serves to accentuate their frightening descent into madness. The narrator lives with an elderly man whose “vulture eye” becomes an obsession for him, with terrible consequences. Edgar Allan Poe was an American short story writer, poet, critic, novelist and editor. He is best known for his stories of mystery and horror, which stand out for their chilling atmosphere and vivid, memorable characters. Find out everything you need to know about The Tell-Tale Heart in a fraction of the time! Edgar Allan Poe is also famous for such works as ''The Raven'', "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Gold-Bug", "The Black Cat", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "Hop-Frog" and many more.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 1438119224
Presents a collection of critical essays on Poe's novel, The tell-tale heart, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
Author : Gare Thompson
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1410879453
Perform this script about two policemen who investigate a murder mystery.
