The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #6 (Original Version) [NOOK Book]

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person original narrative of an unnamed narrator[1] who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease (nervousness) which causes "over-acuteness of the senses". The old man with whom he lives has a clouded, pale, blue "vulture-like" eye which so distresses the narrator that he plots to murder the old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only the eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane. For seven original ...
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The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #6 (Original Version)

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Overview

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person original narrative of an unnamed narrator[1] who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease (nervousness) which causes "over-acuteness of the senses". The old man with whom he lives has a clouded, pale, blue "vulture-like" eye which so distresses the narrator that he plots to murder the old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only the eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane. For seven original nights, the narrator opens the door of the old man's room, a process which takes him a full hour. However, the old man's vulture eye is always closed, making it impossible to "do the work".

On the eighth night, the old man awakens and sits up in his own bed while the narrator performs his nightly ritual. The narrator does not draw back and, after some time, decides to open his lantern. A single ray of light shines out and lands precisely on the old man's eye, revealing that it is wide open. Hearing the old man's heart beating unusually and dangerously quick from terror, the narrator decides to strike, jumping out with a loud yell and smothering the old man with his own bed. The narrator dismembers the body and conceals the pieces under the floorboards, making certain to hide all signs of the crime. Even so, the old man's scream during the night causes a neighbor to report to the police. The narrator invites the three arriving officers in to look around. He claims that the screams heard were his own in a nightmare and that the man is absent in the country. Confident that they will not find any evidence of the murder, the narrator brings chairs for them and they sit in the old man's room, right on the very spot where the body is concealed, yet they suspect nothing, as the narrator has a pleasant and easy manner about him.

The narrator, however, begins to hear a faint noise. As the noise grows louder, the narrator comes to the conclusion that it is the heartbeat of the old man coming from under the floorboards. The sound increases steadily, though the officers seem to pay no attention to it. Shocked by the constant beating of the heart and a feeling that not only are the officers aware of the sound, but that they also suspect him, the narrator confesses to killing the old man and tells them to tear up the floorboards to reveal the body.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013037854
  • Publisher: Emerson Huxley
  • Publication date: 8/22/2011
  • Series: The Complete Works Series , #6
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 571,290
  • File size: 109 KB

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"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 dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the original 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 whether the narrator works for the old man as a servant, perhaps, that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret, or power. 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.

The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2012

    Creepy but good

    I saw this book on youtube at school and i think the guys a loon but everybody laughed at him. But in other reasons it was a good book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2012

    Really really awsome

    This guy was truely ma(crazy mad)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 3, 2011

    I Also Recommend:

    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #1 (Original Version)
    The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #2 (Original Version)
    The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #4 (Original Version)
    The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Series Book #5 (Original Version)

    Great quality ebook

    Great story and was flawless on my nook. Great formatting made it such a joy to read.

    I bought all of this series. The Edgar Allen Poe Complete Works Series.

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