THE ATHENAEUMThe History of the DevilDaniel Defoe
Satire
The History of the Devil
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textDefoe’s history of the Devil from his fall to the eighteenth century, published in 1726, half serious and half satire. It is told in the plain, busy voice of the author of Robinson Crusoe, with a great deal of opinion. Maggie Tulliver, aged nine, shows Mr Riley its picture of a witch being ducked, and he thinks it “not quite the right book for a little girl.”
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #31053. In the public domain in the United States.