IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses -- of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them.
An edition of The Imp of the Perverse
(1845)
Le Démon de la perversité
by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not."
"The Imp of the Perverse" was first published in the July 1845 issue of Graham's Magazine.
This story also contained in:
Classic Crime Stories
Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe Reader
Historias estraordinarias
Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες
Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Poe Reader
Selected Prose, Poetry, and Eureka
Selected Tales
Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales
Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III
Tales: Mystery and Occultism
Tales: Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death
Tales: Volume III
Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In Five Volumes: Volume Two
Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Vol. II
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The Imp of the Perverse
Oct 26, 2018, Independently published, Independently Published
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Demonio de la Perversidad/le démon de la Perversité: Edición Bilingüe/Édition Bilingue
2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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démon de la Perversité: . Édition Limitée
2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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démon de la Perversité
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El Demonio De La Perversidad / The Demon of Wickedness (Biblioteca Edgar Allan Poe)
July 20, 2005, Edaf S.A.
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8441416443 9788441416444
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The Imp of The Perverse
February 2, 2004, BookSurge Classics
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Links outside Open Library
- The Imp of the Perverse (short story) - Wikipedia
- The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe - Poestories.com
- etc.usf.edu/lit2go/147/the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe/5233/the-imp-of-the-perverse/
- A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Imp of the ...
- The Imp of the Perverse - Edgar Allan Poe (1845) - BoekMeter.nl
- THERE'S A NAME FOR THAT: THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
- eapoe.org/works/info/pt060
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