The Gentleman
New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Poets -- Fiction.
Devil -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Devil -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
039956263X
"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."