The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Hardcover
Pages 25 pages
Published 1843
Languages English, Italian, Spanish
ISBN 9780890612620
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The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher's Summary
Having 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.…
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v (Ratings Count): 278
C (Catalog Average): 3.89 ★
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