Dec 31, 2009
The Chronicle of Young Satan | The Chronicle of Young Satan
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: 1702
- Setting: Imaginary Austrian village of Eseldorf
- Principal Characters: Theodor Fischer, Satan, Father Peter, Father Adolf, Marget, Wilhelm Meidling, Nikolaus Baumann, Seppi Wohlmeyer
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, Dreams, Reality, Fear, Eighteenth century, Greed, Witches or witchcraft, Theft, Clergy, Conformity, Austria or Austrians, Western Europe or western Europeans, Boys, Priests, Satan or Satanism, Angels
- Locales: Austria
The Story
After a brief prologue, this unfinished story opens with young Theodor Fischer, Nikolaus
Baumann, and Seppi Wohlmeyer playing on a hillside, where a handsome young stranger joins
them. The stranger, who seems to read Theodor's mind, impresses the boys with amazing
tricks, including fashioning miniature people and animals out of clay and bringing them to life.
He reveals that he is an angel named “Satan,” a nephew of the great Satan, but as
he is explaining that angels cannot commit sin, the tiny clay people begin to quarrel, and he
quietly crushes them. Shortly...
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