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The devil upon crutches /
"This is the first reprinting since the eighteenth century - and the first scholarly edition - of Tobias Smollett's translation of Alain Rene Le Sage's The Devil upon Crutches. First published in France in 1707 as Le Diable boiteaux, the novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmo...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. Works. 1988.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Devil upon Crutches; FIRST VOLUME; Asmodeus's Crutches.; CHAPTER I. Which shews what sort of a devil this same Devil upon Crutches was; where and by what accident Don Cleofas Leandro Perez de Zambullo became acquainted with him.; CHAPTER II. Continuation of the deliverance of Asmodeus.; CHAPTER III. To what place the demon carried Don Cleofas, and what scenes he .rst presented to his view.; CHAPTER IV. The history of the amours of the Count de Bel.or, and Leonora de Cespides.
- CHAPTER V. Continuation and conclusion of the amours of Count Belflor. CHAPTER VI. What other things Don Cleofas saw, and in what manner he was revenged of Donna Thomasa; CHAPTER VII. Of the prisoners.; CHAPTER VIII. Asmodeus shews Don Cleofas several people, and informs him what they have been doing throughout the day.; CHAPTER IX. Of the bedlamites.; CHAPTER X. Of which the subject is inexhaustible.; CHAPTER XI. An account of the .re, and what Asmodeus did on that occasion.; SECOND VOLUME; CHAPTER I. Containing the history of the dead; some tombs, and a parcel of ghosts.
- CHAPTER II. The power of friendship, a novel. CHAPTER III. A fray that happened between a comic and tragic poet.; CHAPTER IV. Continuation and conclusion of the Power of Friendship.; CHAPTER V. Of Dreams.; CHAPTER VI. Where may be seen several originals, that are not without copies.; CHAPTER VII. What things more the demon shewed Don Cleofas.; CHAPTER VIII. Of the Slaves.; CHAPTER IX. Containing the last history with which Asmodeus entertained the student of Alcala. How in finishing it, he was all of a sudden interrupted; and in what disagreeable manner the demon was obliged to leave him.
- CHAPTER X. and last. What Don Cleofas did, after the Devil upon Crutches had left him and after what manner the author has thought proper to end this work.; DIALOGUES, serious and comic, between two Chimneys of Madrid.; DIALOGUE I. The Chimney A. and the Chimney B.; Dialogues, Serious and Comic, between Two Chimneys of Madrid; DIALOGUE II. The Chimney C. and the Chimney D.; DIALOGUE III. The Chimney E. and the Chimney F.; Appendix A: Index to the 1759 Second Edition Copy-Text; Appendix B: Guide to Pharmaceuticals and Related Terms; Notes to the Text; Textual Commentary; List of Emendations.
- Textual NotesWord-Division; Historical Collation; Bibliographical Descriptions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X.