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Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil

By: Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Niccolo Machiavelli, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, John Buchan, Charles Baudelaire, William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland
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Summary

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with. For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell.

However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback.

For us, it’s all a moot point. We would never offer up such a deal. After all just listen to the stories of those who have.

01 - Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil - An Introduction

02 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

03 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

04 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli

05 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol

06 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

07 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

08 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire

09 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan

10 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

11 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

12 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett

13 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach

14 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

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