The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by Don Aday

Overview

A very troubled, sad man who drowns his sorrows and fears in alcohol begins to turn from being a loving and thoughtful husband and animal lover with many pets, to a deeply disturbed individual who takes his feelings of misery out on his pets, and especially targeting his black cat, who loves him deeply. From that point on, the man spirals down further and further into his own bleak maelstrom of troubles, losing everything he owns and loves as a result. Eventually, in his maniacal rage directed at his cat, trying to kill the innocent animal, he kills his wife instead. This leads to his disposing of her body, and the eventual gruesome discovery by the police of his wife and the black cat in a makeshift tomb.

One of Edgar A. Poe's most compelling and popular short stories, The Black Cat will mystify you and stir your imagination.

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From the Publisher

• "Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
• "The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."
• "Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

Product Details

BN ID:	2940174020153
Publisher:	Donald Aday
Publication date:	07/17/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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