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Old 03-15-2023, 05:29 AM   #1
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Various Authors: Deals with the Devil. v1. 15 Mar. 2023

Speaking of the devil — here he comes now!

Sixteen classic tales of skirmishes with the Satanic. Demons and devils and would-be wickeds attempt to work their fiendish wiles on mortals — sometimes with astonishing results.


By various authors.
My own compilation.

A list of the titles:
Spoiler:

The Devil and Tom Walker – 1824
by Washington Irving
(1783–1859)

St. John’s Eve – 1830
by Nikolai Gogol
(1809–1852)
transl. by Isabel Florence Hapgood
(1851–1928)

The Devil’s Wager – 1833
by William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811–1863)

Sir Dominick’s Bargain – 1872
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
(1814–1873)

The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh – 1838
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
(1814–1873)

Lucifer – 1895
by Anatole France
(1844–1924)
Transl. by Alfred Richard Allinson
(1852–1929)

The Bargain of Rupert Orange – 1896
by Vincent O’Sullivan
(1872–1940)

The Mysterious Stranger – 1916
by “Mark Twain”
(Samuel Clemens)
(1835–1910)
Posthumously edited and completed by
Albert Bigelow Paine (1861–1937)
Frederick A. Duneka (1860–1919)

The Painter’s Bargain – 1838
by William MakepeaceThackeray
(1811–1863)

The Legend of Mont St. Michel – 1882
by Guy de Maupassant
(1850–1893)
Transl. by Albert M.C. McMaster
(?–?)

The Demon Pope – 1888
by Richard Garnett
(1835–1906)

Madam Lucifer – 1888
by Richard Garnett
(1835–1906)

The Shoemaker and the Devil – 1888
by Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904)
Transl. by Constance Garnett
(1861–1946)

The Bottle Imp – 1891
by Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850–1894)

Sold to Satan – 1904
by “Mark Twain”
(Samuel Clemens)
(1835–1910)

The Devil and Daniel Webster – 1936
by Stephen Vincent Benét
(1898–1943)


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Contents were originally published 1824 ~ 1936 This book is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+70” or less.
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EDIT TO ADD: Uploaded new file to correct an embarrassing mis-spelling of an author's name (doubly embarrassing because I uploaded a whole raft of his writings many years ago!) Previous downloads: 5
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Having spelled Samuel Clemens' name wrong in the ToC, I have uploaded book with corrected text.

This is doubly embarrassing because I uploaded a lot of Mark Twain books, and created several omnibus collections of his writings, and definitely should know better.

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