The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

By Edgar Allan Poe

Book Overview

A thrilling, macabre collection of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest short stories and poems, as well as his only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry. Here are sixteen of his finest tales, including:

- "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story of a murderer whose guilty conscience manifests in the form of chilling hallucinations;
- "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which a man visits a childhood friend, only to discover a sinister secret lurking beneath his feet;
- "The Cask of Amontillado," which follows a scorned man as he enacts monstrous revenge on a friend who wronged him;
- "The Pit and the Pendulum," set during the Spanish Inquisition, introduces us to a prisoner whose shrouded cell contains untold horrors;
- "The Black Cat," a narrative of a man whose love of animals morphs into perverse acts of violence.

Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems--"The Raven," "Annabel Lee," "Ulalume," "Lenore," "The Bells," and more, plus his glorious prose poem "Silence--A Fable" and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.

The hair-raising tales and poems in this collection:
"The Tell-Tale Heart" - "The Black Cat" - "The Cask of Amontillado" - "The Fall of the House of Usher" - "The Masque of the Red Death" - "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" - Ligeia" - The Murders in the Rue Morgue" - The Purloined Letter" - A Descent into the Maelström" - "The Pit and the Pendulum" - "Ms. Found in a Bottle" - The Premature Burial" - "William Wilson" - "Eleonora" - "Silence--A Fable" - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - "Stanzas" - "Romance" - "To Helen" - "Israfel" - "The City in the Sea" - "The Sleeper" - "The Valley of Unrest" - "Lenore" - "The Raven" - "A Valentine" - "Ulalume--A Ballad" - For Annie" - "Annabel Lee" - "The Bells" - "Alone"

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00BG6Z0NO
• ISBN13: 9780553212280
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Telltale Heart

I have loved this story since I was 14 in 9th grade. It started me on my love for all things spooky!!

Who doesn’t love Edgar?

Classic!

Edgar Allan Poe's works

I think that Edgar Allan Poe is a really great Author. He completely mastered the style that he wanted to achieve. His style is somewhat of a creepy, cold feeling one. A coldness that grasps you while you read it. While you read his stories, you really can feel the creepy sense in each one. It's a great style of writing, that doesn't always appeal to everyone, but it's still a great style to accomplish, and he did it very, very well. I enjoyed reading most of his works, because they have a vocabulary on them like you wouldn't believe. I had to look up a few words that he used, but it was still nice to read. Anyways, have fun reading his books, and let them live on. :-D

The Tell-Tale Heart

Ive read this book in one of my classes at school. I would suggest it to anyone that has a wider vocabulary. Basically its about a man, the narrator, who has an obsession with another man's eye. The eye resembles that of a vulture's or in simpler terms it has a glazed look to it. The eye drives the narrator crazy. After many nights of waiting he finally gets the chance to kill him. He hides the body underneath the floorboards in the house. When the police investigate the narrator believes that he can hear the beating of the heart underneath the floor. He is sure the police can hear it to. It ocercomes him, and since he is so sure that they hear it, he confesses. When in all reality, it is his own guilt which leads him to confess... But thats a reader's digest version. :)