Who the Hell is the Devil?
A Short Introduction
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Beschreibung
A lively tour through the strangest career in religious history, from fallen angel to modern politician and spy. Based on Daniel Defoe's forgotten classic and adapted for modern readers.
They are among us. They sit in boardrooms and parliaments. They sign treaties and break them. They smile while they lie.
According to legend, the Devil cannot hide his cloven foot. No matter how fine his clothes, that goat's hoof always shows. The legend may be the oldest trick of all. Satan moves more freely when we're watching for hooves.
This book traces him from his expulsion from Heaven to his long career among us. Based on Daniel Defoe's classic Political History of the Devil and adapted for modern readers.
Includes the Brothers Grimm tale "The Devil's Sooty Brother" and a timeline of Defoe's life.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660–1731) was born in London, the son of a tallow chandler, and tried his hand at commerce. He went bankrupt, tried again, went bankrupt again. In between, he wrote political pamphlets, which earned him a turn in the pillory and some time in prison. He worked as a spy, journalist, and publisher, producing over five hundred books, pamphlets, and articles on just about every subject imaginable. At nearly sixty, he began writing novels and became famous for Robinson Crusoe. His Political History of the Devil appeared in 1726, when he was already in his mid-sixties—a satirical, learned, occasionally meandering work about the figure who had fascinated theologians and peasants alike for centuries.
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