Publisher: Penguin Classics
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
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'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.'
Title: A Modern Detective
Original: A Modern Detective
Category: Novel
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year: 2016
Pgs: 121
Weight: 0.100 kg
ISBN: 978-0-241-25232-1
This book is in English
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.'
Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height.
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
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Publisher: Collins Classics
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