A Deal with the Devil (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Eden Phillpotts
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cautionary
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Great Britain
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Faustian bargains, Devils or demons, Great Britain, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Great Britain
The Plot
Among the many dissipations of Daniel Dolphin’s unprincipled and profligate life was forgery, for which he spent five years in prison. At the age of ninety-five, he reformed, and during the five years prior to his hundredth birthday he “kept as sober, as honest, and as innocent as one could wish to see any nonagenarian” and looked forward confidently to death and the afterlife. He lives with Martha Dolphin, his granddaughter and sole surviving relative, a middle-aged spinster who narrates the novel.
At his centennial breakfast, Daniel tells Martha of a...
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