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Tell Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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1. The Tell-Tale Heart: Introduction 2. The Tell-Tale Heart: Overview 3. The Tell-Tale Heart: Edgar Allan Poe Biography 4. The Tell-Tale Heart: Summary 5. The Tell-Tale Heart: Characters 6. The Tell-Tale Heart: Themes 7. The Tell-Tale Heart: Style 8. The Tell-Tale Heart: Historical Context 9. The Tell-Tale Heart: Critical Overview 10. The Tell-Tale Heart: Essays and Criticism ♦ The First-Person Narrative Viewpoint in the “Tell-Tale Heart” ♦ The Twin and the Doppelganger ♦ Poe’s ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart’’ ♦ The Question of Poe’s Narrators ♦ Edgar Allan Poe: ‘‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’’ 11. The Tell-Tale Heart: Compare and Contrast 12. The Tell-Tale Heart: Topics for Further Study 13. The Tell-Tale Heart: Media Adaptations 14. The Tell-Tale Heart: What Do I Read Next? 15. The Tell-Tale Heart: Bibliography and Further Reading 16. The Tell-Tale Heart: Pictures 17. Copyright

The Tell-Tale Heart: Introduction
One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’’ was first published in the The Tell-Tale Heart 1

January, 1843 edition of James Russell Lowell’s The Pioneer and was reprinted in the August 23, 1845 issue of The Broadway Journal. The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator who kills a man and afterward hears his victim’s relentless heartbeat. While



Bibliography: and Further Reading 23

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