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The gentleman
Title:
The gentleman
Author:
Leo, Forrest, 1990- author.
Personal Author:
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.
General Note:
"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."
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780399562631
Format :
Book