The gentleman
By: Forrest Leo
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780399562631
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fiction; Poets; Devil; History
Description: 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."