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The Devil (The Art of the Novella series)

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The Devil (The Art of the Novella series)

"I am acting badly," thought Yevgeny, "But what's one to do? Anyhow it is not for long."

Leo Tolstoy is known for epic novels that brilliantly dissect society, but the novella The Devil may be the most personally revealingâ€”and startlingâ€”fiction he ever wrote. He thought it so scandalous, in fact, that he hid the manuscript in the upholstery of a chair in his office so his wife wouldn't find it, and he would never allow it to be published in his lifetime.

Perhaps that's because the gripping tale of an aristocratic landowner slowly overcome with unrelenting sexual desire for one of the peasants on his estate was strikingly similar to an affair Tolstoy himself had. Regardless, the taleâ€”presented here with the two separate endings Tolstoy couldn't decide betweenâ€”is a scintillating study of sexual attraction and human obsession.

The Art of The Novella Series

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Country	USA
Brand	Tolstoy, Leo/ Maude, Louise Shanks (TRN)/ Maude, Aylmer/ Maude, Louise Shanks
Manufacturer	Melville House Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780974607832
ReleaseDate	2004-05-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780974607832

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