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The gentleman
Call Number
- FICTION LEO (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
Physical Description
287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
Distraught at the loss of his inspiration, Lionel Savage, a poet from Victorian London, accidentally conjures the Devil and realizes that he has inadvertently sold his rich wife's soul to him, and plots a rescue mission to Hell with an assortment of unlikely companions.
Notes
"Being a truthful account concerning the hazards of love, marriage, duels, poetry, inventors, family, anarchists, airships, intercourse with the Devil, ladies' undergarments, painting from life, the history of exploration, &c. Set down by Mr. Lionel Lupus Savage & edited with objections by Mr. Hubert Lancaster, Esq, containing nothing either allegorical or metaphorical in nature & never deviating from the truth."