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The Imp of the Perverse Study Guide

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by Edgar Allan Poe
About 9 pages (2,760 words)
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"Perverseness"

Idea that one will act exactly as he or she should not for the fact that there is an undeniable compulsion to do so, simply because it is what one should not do. For example,.....

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