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Devil Stories - Machiavelli Irving Gogol and Others on the Fiend - cover

Devil Stories - Machiavelli Irving Gogol and Others on the Fiend

Maximilian J. Rudwin

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

The devil in nineteen guises: bargaining, bored, litigious, in love, outwitted by a peasant, defeated by a woman's tongue. The anthology runs from Luther's day to Kipling and gathers Balzac, Gogol, Hawthorne and Marlowe's Faustus alongside forgotten Sunday-magazine fiends. It is a survey of what each century thought evil looked like when it sat down to talk. Fifty-six plates spanning 1565 to 1923, from Bruegel and Goya to Odilon Redon, trace the devil's visual career across four centuries of harvest fields, bullrings and cathedral shadows.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 248 pages.

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