Books like The Devil & the Good Lord, and two other plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

Uncle Vanya is Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s celebrated second play, first staged in 1900 under Konstantin Stanislavski. It revises Chekhov’s earlier work, *The Wood Demon*, with a smaller cast and a less happily resolved ending.

Samuel Beckett’s masterful farce, *Waiting for Godot*, first staged in 1953, examines human absurdity and the elusiveness of hope through the symbolic wait for a mysterious figure.

A dramatic retelling of Oscar Wilde's fall from grace, focusing on scandalous relationships, censorship, and the fall of Victorian society's elite.

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. Tracing the idea back to the pre-Christian era with its many devils, he pauses to explore Judaism's approach, then moves on to concentrate on Christianity's contribution: the creation of the monster we know today. Stanford casts his net widely to include literature and the arts, folklore and psychology, history and theology, and he distills a wealth of complex information - from early Church teachings to medieval iconography, from witchcraft and satanism to satanic cults and modern-day exorcisms. The result is a lively, engaging account of an age-old enemy.