The Tell-tale Heart
Subtitle: and Other Stories
Contributors: Colin Swatridge (Editor); C.A. Bitter (Editor)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: MacMillan Publishers
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780333427453
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Language & Linguistics
Description: Macmillan Advanced Readers are unabridged texts which offer access to authentic literary English for overseas students at an advanced level. Each volume has a general introduction and concise biographical notes on the authors, and there are glossaries to explain the pronunciation and significance of the more unusual and difficult features of the text.

The stories in this volume are excursions into the macabre by eight famous writers:
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Graves
Algernon Blackwood
E. F. Benson
John Wyndham
H. G. Wells
Roald Dahl
and John Galsworthy
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: The Tell-Tale Heart EDGAR ALLAN POE; title: Earth to Earth ROBERT GRAVES; title: The Truth About Pyecraft H. G. WELLS; title: Timber JOHN GALSWORTHY; title: The House With the Brick-Kiln E. F. BENSON; title: A Long Spoon JOHN WYNDHAM; title: Skin ROALD DAHL; title: Running Wolf ALGERNON BLACKWOOD; title: Glossary and Notes; title: Exercises