The Black Cat

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Description: The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them. His favorite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out and then hanging it from a tree. The home burns down but one remaining wall shows a burned outline of a cat hanging from a noose. He soon finds another black cat, similar to the first except for a white mark on its chest, but he develops a hatred for it as well. He ... (more)

Manufacturer: BookSurge Classics
Release date: 2 February 2004
ISBN-10 : 1594561753 | ISBN-13: 9781594561757

Tags: Short Story (3), Horror (2), Murder (1), Fiction (1), Cats (1), Gothic (1), Alcoholism (1), American Literature (1), Guilt (1), Edgar Allan Poe (1)

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" “Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand"