The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

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Book Description

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murderer share. It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure or, perhaps, that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret. The ambiguity and lack of details about the two main characters stand in stark contrast to the specific plot details leading up to the murder...

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  • User image   Allan
    30 Nov 2011
    Joe Carr was a wonderful author who explained complex concepts with great clarity, not only in this book but in all of his many books.
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    04 Nov 2008
    i just want to read-out this Book.Thanks
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