DEVIL STORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY
Book Details + Condition: Alfred A. Knopf (New York). First Edition, 1921. Hardcover. 332 pages, with Index. Selected and Edited with Introduction and Critical Comments by Maximilian Rudwin - author of DEVIL IN LEGEND AND LITERATURE, SUPERNATURALISM AND SATANISM, and more (please see our other listing for a signed book by the author). Rudwin presents an anthology of short stories all centered around the devil, with tales including:
- The Devil in a Nunnery
- From the Memoirs of Satan (Wilhelm Hauff, 1828)
- The Devil's Wager (Thackeray, 1833)
- Bon-Bon (Edgar Allan Poe, 1835)
- The Devil's Mother-in-Law
- Madam Lucifer (Garnett, 1888)
- Lucifer (Anatole France, 1895)
- And many more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light aging and wear to boards, with fading present; frayed spine ends; bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
