- Asesinato, Cuentos de terror estadounidenses, Ficción, American Horror tales
"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.
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Intimate, grave, bleak and spare.
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- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe
- First published
- June 1976
- Pages
- 30
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Magic Wagon, Joe Books Inc.
- Editions
- 71
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, German
- ISBN
- 9781521093443
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2] Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
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