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Summary: A superb combination of art and story
Review: (Note: This review refers to the graphic novel version by Mojo Press) What a shame this item is no longer available! This title reinvents Poe through illustration, most strikingly when the artist interprets the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart as a female servant revealing herself through dialogue, and the voice rings eerily true. Also included in this graphic novel version are favoites such as the Bells and Annabel Lee, illustrated with dark gothic flair. A must have for any gn collection, and a fine compliment to other Poe collections -- but good luck finding it!
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Summary: Best short story of his
Review: I thought that this short story was very confusing. Being the age of only 14, I had to read this short story for a book report. I had some difficulty understanding what it meant and how it all added up in the end. I think that this is one of Edgar Alan Poe's horrible short stories. The story had many words that were hard to understand and it didn't make sense at the end. I reccommend this story to older teenagers and adults. It is to complicated for young teenagers.
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Summary: The Tell Tale Heart
Review: The Tell Tale of Heart by Edgar Allen Poe wrote about a mad man who killed someone, Eventually tells on himself. This man is known to be crazy. Every night he goes in a room and watches the man with the evil eye. Until one night he decides to kill him. The mad man thinks the evil eye is after him. This book would be of interest to middle school level to adults. I loved his vivid details and use of vocabulary. This story is one of many stories I loved of Edgar Allen Poe. His twisted mind makes many of his works enjoyable. I recommend this book to many people.
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Summary: This was intresting:-)
Review: The Tell Tale of Heart by Edgar Allen Poe wrote about a mad man who killed someone, Eventually tells on himself. This man is known to be crazy. Every night he goes in a room and watches the man with the evil eye. Until one night he decides to kill him. The mad man thinks the evil eye is after him. This book would be of interest to middle school level to adults. I loved his vivid details and use of vocabulary. This story is one of many stories I loved of Edgar Allen Poe. His twisted mind makes many of his works enjoyable. I recommend this book to many people.
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Summary: Madness
Review: This is one of Poe's best short-stories.
It's about obsession, and how guilt can drive someone insane in a matter of hours. I guess Poe himself had a huge guilt complex. Anyway, the fact is that Poe can write in a style that leave the reader in a "edge of the seat" condition in less than ten pages. As with Poe's many other stories, we don't know the character's motivations or reason to do what he does, and it certainly helps to get the story a little more obscure. Poe is able to pass an atmosphere to his stories in very few pages, and the final effect is amazing. Fast and good read. Grade 8.8/10
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Summary: this is a very good summary
Review: Within The Tale-Tale Heart, a disfigured old man becomes the object of the narrator's wrath. With precision the narrator sneaks into the old man's home and kills him because of a grotesque eye that has obsessed the narrator. Through the narrator's actions, Poe destroys "the external universe as usually perceived and eradicates the barriers erected by time, space and self. With the destruction of the reasoned world, the world of the imagination can take over [allowing] Poe to confuse sight and sound, sight and smell, fire and water, life and death, and the various other elements which man's reason keeps apart or regars as polarities" (Ketterer 28). Through the narrator's slow creeping motion into the old man's room (which lasts hours), Poe is able to not only alter reality, but also our concept of time. As in The Black Cat, the narrator in this story also leads the police to the body. However, it is not an outside force that leads to his capture, it is his own mental state. "In the conclusion of the story, the ringing in the madman's ears first is fancied, then later becomes distinct, then is discovered to be so definite that it is erroneously accorded external actuality, and finally grows to such obsessive proportions that it drives the criminal into an emotional and physical frenzy" (Howarth 97). The beating of the old man's heart that the narrator hears in his mind is an distortion of his reality. The man's heart is not actually beating, but the narrator is convinced that he hears the sound because Poe has created a sound illusion. Reality and illusion in this story merge to create a new world where anything is possible, even the beating of a dead man's heart.
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