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First Lie Wins follows Evie Porter, a woman adept at adopting new identities, as she navigates a world filled with deception, betrayal, and danger. The novel alternates between the present day and flashbacks, slowly unraveling Evie’s complex history and the events leading up to a pivotal confrontation with the shadowy figure known as Mr. Smith.
Analysis. The narrator of "Tell-Tale Heart" defends his sanity – he says he is nervous, but that he can not be called mad. His senses are in fact quickened, and he is more alert and has heard things from both heaven and hell. He admits that his motives for the act to follow are curious, that there was no passion that provoked it.
The Tell-Tale Heart Full Story Summary. An unnamed narrator opens the story by addressing the reader and claiming that he is nervous but not mad. He says that he is going to tell a story in which he will defend his sanity yet confess to having killed an old man. His motivation was neither passion nor desire for money, but rather a fear of the ...
Edgar Allan Poe Biography. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and died on October 7, 1849. In his stormy forty years, which included a marriage to his cousin, fights with other writers, and legendary drinking binges, Poe lived in some of the important literary centers of the northeastern United States: Baltimore, Philadelphia, New ...
Story Summary: “The Gold-Bug”. An instant success, Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” was published in 1843. Poe submitted the short story to a writing competition that was sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. “The Gold-Bug” was awarded first place and subsequently published in three installments. The story was Poe’s ...
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Summary: “The Tell-Tale Heart”. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known short stories, first published in The Pioneer in January 1843. It is a work of Gothic horror written from the first-person point of view; like other Poe stories that employ the same narrative style (e.g., " The Black Cat," also published in ...
