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The Black Cat and Other Stories
The Black Cat and Other Stories | Edgar Allan Poe
" I am not more certain that I breathe than that the assurance of the wrong or error of any action is often the one unconquerable force which impels us, and alone impels us, to its prosecution. " Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with the perverse is seen at its most appalling in these tales, in which killers are betrayed by wail of a cat or the beat of a heart - or perhaps by their own perverseness. And Poe's love of extremis takes us to premature burials, into the maelstrm, and to the bedside of a man mesmerized in the final moments of life - who lives on to declare " I am dead ". This selection includes six of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales of horror together with his three masterly stories of the unknown at sea : " MS. Found in a Bottle ", " A Descent into the Maelstrm ", and his only novel, " The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ".
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Xarios

It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself to offer violence to its own nature to do wrong for the wrong‘s sake

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BethwithBooks
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Would I be happier if I were drinking from this mug right now? Poe-sibly...

britt_brooke 😆 7y
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MaleficentBookDragon
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Hello from my #kittenlittens Harpy, Hades and Persephone on this #blackcatappreciationday
They say it's about damn time. 😹

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 7y
Bette 🐱❤️💙💜 7y
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MrBook
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So, when I got home a few moments ago, I went up to @BookBabe 's studio to see how her bookish paintings are coming along, and, lo! who do I spot on the reading chaise but none other than our felonious feline. Oh, #Coale! He wanted a book, and I was happy to oblige. I think he was getting tired of supervising her painting 😊. #catsofLitsy

minkyb A reading chaise is heaven! 8y
readordierachel "Draw me like one of your French girls." 8y
Mimi28 Aaaaawwww!!! 😻😻😻 8y
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kspenmoll Love that reading chaise!!! #Coale is perfect for it! 8y
Tanner That face says it all: "Where is my book? Did you bring me one?" 8y
Heatherine Love your chaise lounge!! I've been wanting one forever!! 8y
BookBabe 😻😻😻 He's sooo cute! 😸 8y
MrBook @minkyb 😁👍🏻! @ReadOrDieRachel 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! @Mimi28 😸! @kspenmoll @Heatherine Thank you 😺! All credit goes to @BookBabe 😊. @Tanner He's like us, always wants a book 😉👍🏻. @BookBabe 😍😍 8y
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WoodyWoodson
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@BookishFeminist This was right outside my building when I left work and naturally, I thought of your saga with the inflatables. At least this kitty doesnt look too menacing. Happy Halloween! 🎃📖👻

BookishFeminist Hahahaha oh my god what is this! 😂😂😂 agreed that it's less scary but I don't understand these inflatables! 8y
WoodyWoodson @BookishFeminist at least they waited until Halloween to put it up, but jeez! I still jumped when I saw it. So random and silly! 8y
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grace.rajendran
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Day 3 of my illustrated #spookyreads is from the master of chilling suspense, Edgar Allan Poe!
#poe #edgarallanpoe #allhallowsread #litsy #spooktober #halloween

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Mehso-so

Wow, a kind of shocking story. I gasped a few times...and am kind of surprised at the narrator's lack of empathy. Wow, crazy read.

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"FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream." Poe - The master of unreliable narrators!

Books_Wine_Repeat Great pic! 8y
britt_brooke Lovely picture! 8y
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