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  <title><![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including &quot;The Tell-Tale Heart&quot;, &quot;The Murders in the Rue Morgue&quot;, &quot;The Fall of the House of Usher,&quot; &quot;The Pit and the Pendulum,&quot; &quot;William Wilson,&quot; &quot;The Black Cat,&quot; &quot;The Cask of Amontillado,&quot; and &quot;Eleonora&quot;. Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - &quot;The Raven,&quot; &quot;Annabel Lee,&quot; Ulalume,&quot; &quot;Lenore,&quot; &quot;The Bells,&quot; and more, plus his glorious prose poem &quot;Silence - A Fable&quot; and only full-length novel, &lt;i&gt;The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym&lt;/i&gt;.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[VERY creepy! We were forced to read it in English... AHH!!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of work by the illustrious deviant with the charming monogram E.A.P.  <br/>	<br/>Let me begin by trying to be helpful for anyone out there looking to pick up a copy of Poe’s work: do NOT settle for this edition, for a few more bucks you can get the Complete Poe (several available ed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30724244">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart is a book that I find very disturbing. To think a man would kill someone over the appearance of his eye. For some reason the old man's blue eye made his roommate fear him.  He watched over the old man night after night, until one night the old man wakes in terror.  The roommate b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42028770">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are, of course, many wonderful and creepy things to say about all the well-known short stories and poems of EAP. I personally really enjoyed revisiting &quot;The Black Cat,&quot; mostly because I want a kitty and I will treat it much better. But what I really want to touch on briefly is Poe's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66681487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe is a unique and prolific writer. he delves into his writings in a way that it reflects his emotion and understanding of life. we all know he lived a very sorrowful life from start to end and by choosing a genre such a mystery and sorrow as his recurring motives he has defined and mad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61279496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once a reader understands Poe's obsession with trying to evoke the sublime (uncontrolable emotion, such as horror or love) in his writing, a reader of a Tell-tale will see how masterfully Poe evokes these emotions. The art in Poe's writing is how deeply he connects inevitable emotion of the human ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56343037">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[        <br/>    The tell-tale heart is a story about a man and his elder roomate. this story contains internal and external conflict, suspense, and dialouge. this is a dark story, it's quite scary and can be weird at times. it's genre would be drama and horror, and though there's only about 4 char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12150602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41867310">
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    <body><![CDATA[Had read various stories from him in high school, but picked this up on a whim and found most of them to be very enjoyable.  The guy was obviously deeply disturbed, and if he didn't write as an outlet, I'm quite certain he would've enacted some of these fantasies. The Black Cat is the best example o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41867310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had some collection of his works as a kid/teen, read several of them. The ones (seems there was more than one) about live beings being walled in to structures especially bothered me. <br/>Haven't read all of this stories by any means, I think 3-5. Plus maybe one or two assigned in school at some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51247150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fun story about a man who kills someone, buries the body under the floorboards, and then is held in the same room while the police question him. They don't have any proof that he's the culprit of the crime, but the man is being taunted by the dead person's &quot;still beating heart&quot;. Finall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40105908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is like the fifth time I've read this story. At some point I will learn that I really shouldn't be reading Edgar Allan Poe before bed. It's just a silly idea. This story really isn't that scary, but between the suspense, and the psycho killer dude, I bet it will give me some seriously messed up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72401409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe may be one of the darkest story tellers ever, but there is a lesson to be learned or a deeper meaning in almost all of his stories.  The Tell-Tale Heart, although a dark story for sure, has a good lesson to it-DON'T LIE, THE TRUTH WILL ALWAY COME OUT SOMEHOW!  I learned that one's co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48211627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this story, not the whole book. In my opinion, this is a masterpiece of suspense, and a powerful story about how a person's guilt will betray them in the end.  I love the way Poe builds up the tension slowly but surely until the end, with a careful use of narrative.  I believe this is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73740090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this many times over the years, the first in high school English, and consider it one of my favorites. Not sure why but probably because it is pretty warped. I think it might also be that I would probably do the same thing. My own guilt would eat at me until I could not longer keep quiet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49551943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the only story in this book that i have read in this thing was the one called The Tell-Tale heart, so that is the one that i am going to be writing about. i had to read t for english class, and it turned out to be a very interesting quick read. i really liked discussing this book in class. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this as a child, and it always scared me. I listened to it recently as an adult. The narrater was different from the one I'd remembered, and not as good in my opinion. A good read if you're in the right mood--black, desperate, active imagination, pessimistic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's something wonderful about Poe's ability to write prose that is just as poetic as any verse. No one since, except perhaps Stephen King, has been so good at getting at the heart of what frightens people. He scares us with our own thoughts, in this case guilt. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 10 06:43:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this in my freshman year English class in high school and while I never was a big fan of Poe, I couldn't stop reading.  My heart was pounding right along with the fictional heart in the story.  One of my favorites pieces from high school English.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with Poe when I read The Tell-Tale Heart. I had to read this particular book as a summer reading assignment for the 8th grade, but the details and the classic horror genre is what really drew me in into reading the rest of his stories.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 15:29:59 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my usual type of book, but i have enjoyed the short stories that he has wrote. And i found this book in my actual book shelf so why not read this? And yes i know i have started a &quot;horror&quot; book on valentines day, a little ironic don'cha think?!]]></body>
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