TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
An edition of The Tell-Tale Heart
(1976)
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The murder of an old man is revealed by the continuing beating of his heart.
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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, fictionShowing 3 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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The Tell-Tale Heart
2011, Creative Education
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158341925X 9781583419250
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"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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