The Devil: : A Biography
by Stanford, Peter
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- first
- Condition
- Book VG+: touch of dust to text block edge, remainder mark top of text block, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0805030824
- ISBN 13
- 9780805030822
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: touch of dust to text block edge, remainder mark top of text block, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped. 8vo 315pp. from front flap: "The Devil's deepest wile," wrote Charles Baudelaire, "is to persuade us that he does not exist." and for quite some time, the Devil succeeded. Pensioned off as irrelevant, the victim of our Age of Reason, he lingered on only in the margins: in the sermons of evangelicals, in the fears of the superstitious. For the rest, Science would answer the problem of Evil (for which the Devil had been invented). But Science has failed us. Evil--disturbing, inexplicable, deeply rooted--persists. Inching toward the millennium, we speak of the Devil once again: in tabloid accounts of cults, in popular novels, and even in scholarly theological works. We are back where we began 2,000 years ago: going to the Devil. Now, in this informed, lucid, and very readable biography, Peter Stanford introduces us to this figure of fascination." #02308.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2243
- Title
- The Devil
- Author
- Stanford, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: touch of dust to text block edge, remainder mark top of text block, else clean, square, tight, unmarked.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG+: touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805030824
- ISBN 13
- 9780805030822
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- devil, religion, occult, biography, nonfiction, first edition
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