The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale. The narrator then begins telling the story of his friend Toby Dammit. Dammit is described as a man of many vices, at least in part due to his left-handed mother flogging him with her left hand, which is considered improper. Dammit often made rhetorical bets, becoming fond of the expression "I'll bet the devil my head". Though the narrator tries to break Dammit of bad habits, he fails. Nevertheless, the two remain friends.
Le Chat noir
Edgar Allan Poe
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Histoires fantastiques
Edgar Allan Poe
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Les poèmes d'Edgar Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé
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Développer sa culture générale avec 10 nouvelles essentielles
Leonid Andreïev, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Fiodor Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Théophile Gautier, Nicolas Gogol, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Tchekhov
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La Lettre volée
Edgar Allan Poe
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Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
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La Chute de la maison Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
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Histoires extraordinaires (texte intégral)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
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Classic Spooky Stories For Halloween
Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving
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El pozo y el péndulo "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Edgar Allan Poe
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El gato negro / El hundimiento de la casa Usher / El cuervo "The Black Cat/ The Fall of the House of Usher / The Raven"
Edgar Allan Poe
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El extraño caso del señor Valdemar y otros relatos "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
Edgar Allan Poe
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