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The Bargain Lost
Edgar Allan Poe · 1832short story
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"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Originally called "The Bargain Lost", it follows Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound philosopher, and his encounter with the Devil. The story's humor is based on the verbal interchange between the two, which satirizes classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. The Devil reveals that he has eaten the souls of many of these philosophers.
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- contained in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe and the Philadelphia Saturday Courier: Facsimile Reproductions of the First Texts of Poe's Earliest Tales and "Raising the Wind"collection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poemscollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Talescollection
- contained in Forty-Two Talescollection
- contained in Talescollection
- contained in Tales of Mystery and Imaginationcollection
- contained in Tales of Mystery and Imaginationcollection
- contained in Tales of Mystery and Imaginationcollection
- contained in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesquecollection
- contained in The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticismscollection
- contained in The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in The Pit and the Pendulumcollection
- contained in The Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: Third Seriescollection
- contained in The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 9collection
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Complete Tales and Poemscollection
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notescollection
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5 (Raven Edition)collection
- contained in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poecollection
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