Never Bet the Devil Your Head topic

"Never Bet the Devil Your Head," often subtitled "A Tale With a Moral," 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. 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... full article at wikipedia