Concept

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Overview

"Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Moral Tale", later republished as "Never Bet the Devil Your Head", is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The satirical tale pokes fun at the notion that all literature should have a moral and spoofs transcendentalism.

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Related ideas

• Transcendentalism
• The Dial
• Internet Archive
• Metaphor
• Fallacy
• Moral
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Evil

Place in the tradition

Part of Transcendentalism.

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