The Devil in the Flesh
By: Raymond Radiguet ; translated from the French by A.M. Sheridan Smith.
Contributors: Alan Sheridan Smith (Translator)
Edition: Marion Boyars Modern Classics
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780714534022
First sentence: I am sure to incur a good deal of reproach.
Description: The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of sixteen, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the Front. The liaison soon becomes a scandal and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening -- even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.

Raymond Radiguet wrote The Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, drawing on his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty.
Notes: "Translation first published in 1968 in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars."