mass market paperback, 419 pages
English language
Published Feb. 1, 1983 by Bantam Classics.
The Tell-Tale Heart (Bantam Classics)
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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.
Subjects
- 19th century fiction
- Horror & ghost stories
- Short stories
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Short Stories (Anthologies)
- Classics
- Fiction / Classics
- Horror tales, American
- 19th century
- Poetry, Modern