Author

The text under consideration is a novel by famous American author of the first half of XIX^th century, who represents dark romanticism. His best known fiction works are Gothic and dark, emerging in the depths of terror; the most famous are “The Gold Bug”, “The Black Cat”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Cask of Amontillado” etc. The author became the father of detective fiction (his tales of terror intrigue with a unique detective plot and unexpected endings). He was also a prolific poet, his poem “The Raven” which was an instant success at his time, is still a popular sensation.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once said, "Each [of  Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed....”. What’s more, his unique sense of literature earned him a reputation of a mostly recognized literary critic of his age. Poe’s harsh and detailed reviews led to the epithet “Tomahawk Man”. His favourite target for criticism was famous poet Henry Longfellow, Poe even predicted the decay of the poet’s fame and literary recognition.

To cut it short, the life of Edgar Poe captures the imagination as well as his bizarre and mysterious characters. He is a man of legend, mystery and sensation. If you once come across his story, it will never let you go without a sudden revelation. 
The abstract deals with the so-called “sanity” of the narrator, his love for animals and his favourite pet – cat Pluto. The narrator, whose death is approaching, has always had a unique fondness of animals; he marries as a young man and shares his desire with his wife. But soon, due to the devastating effect of alcohol, the narrator flies into his tempers more frequent, and his animals suffers, even his favourite Pluto. Then he kills Pluto in agony and hangs him, but a new cat appears, who in the end leads the police to the corpse of the narrator’s wife, whom he has killed and buries in the wall. The final scene reveals the decayed corpse of his wife with a beasty cat sitting on her head.