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By Edgar Allan Poe
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
- Source
- Tales by Edgar A. Poe, 1845 · "The Black Cat", p. 37
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- Internet Archive (University of North Carolina scan of the Wiley and Putnam edition, New York, 1845)
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The opening sentence of Poe's story "The Black Cat", as printed in Tales by Edgar A. Poe (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845). The narrator speaks.