The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories (British Library Hardback Classics)
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The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories (British Library Hardback Classics)

Hardcover – January 1, 2017

Price
$20.86
Format
Hardcover
Pages
198
Publisher
British Library Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0712357548
Dimensions
5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Weight
1.33 pounds

Description

About the Author Greg Buzwell is Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library. He edited and introduced The Face in the Glass , a selection of Gothic tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; and co-curated the major exhibition Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination in 2014. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of the central figures of American literature. He is best remembered for his Gothic tales, his ground-breaking innovations in the new genre of detective fiction, and his poetry.

Features & Highlights

  • A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe’s dark, mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the most deranged and deliciously weird writers of the 19th century. The tales are accompanied by the classic illustrations of Harry Clarke, an artist fully alive to the deep darkness at the heart of Poe’s writing.

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Wonderful Piece

Got this as a gift for my daughter who is a English teacher. She loved it and shares with her students.
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Beautiful book and illustrations

Beautiful book and illustrations. The only thing I didnt care for is that there were multiple stickers on the back that left marks when I peeled them off to give as gifts.