Text to Go: The Tell Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by American writer, Edgar Allen Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavours to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder,...