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The Devil Upon Two Sticks: To Which Are Prefixed, Asmodeus's Crutches, A Critical Letter Upon The Work - Softcover
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The Devil Upon Two Sticks: To Which Are Prefixed, Asmodeus's Crutches, A Critical Letter Upon The Work : And Dialogues Between Two Chimneys Of Madrid by Alain René Le Sage The Devil Upon Two Sticks is an eighteenth?century satirical prose work translated from the French Le Diable boiteux. In a frame tale, a young student frees a bound demon, Asmodeus, from an enchanted bottle and accompanies him through Madrid’s shadowy corners. The demon then reveals a panorama of social folly, using episodic scenes and moral reflections to lampoon lovers, courtiers, merchants, priests, and writers. The book interweaves a narrative of the Sages’ modern world with a dialogue section that imagines conversations between two Madrid chimneys, offering wry commentary on taste, vanity, virtue, and the foibles of human nature. Reading these tales is to witness a satirical tour of masks and pretenses: the pretensions of wealth, the deceit of marriages, the intrigues of vanity, and the pettiness of court politics, all rendered with wit, irony, and keen social insight. This edition preserves Le Sage’s playful frame, his cosmopolitan satire, and the quick, interlaced vignettes that made the work a celebrated classic of French literature.
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The Devil Upon Two Sticks: to Which Are Prefixed, Asmodeus's Crutches, a Critical Letter Upon the Work : and Dialogues Between Two Chimneys of Madrid
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