The Devil
Devil's Playground Duet, Book One

Rozkoszny i niebezpieczny, fascynujący i przerażający, znany i obcy – Diabeł w pracy Philipa C. Almonda miewa różnorodne oblicza, ale autor podkreśla, że jego znaczenia dla kultury Zachodu nie można ignorować. W „Diabeł. Nowa biografia” czytelnik znajdzie liczne odniesienie historyczne, literackie,......more

What Philip C. Almond offers in The Devil: A New Biography is “a new ‘life’ of the Devil, one that locates his life within the broader Christian story which it is inextricably a part.” Almond’s biography gives the reader a secular history of Old Nick and as such it is written from a non-believer’s p......more

The subtitle of The Devil promises a ‘new biography’ (possibly an allusion to Henry Ansgar Kelly’s Satan: A Biography, CUP, 2006), although the book never quite explicitly argues what exactly makes it novel. Indeed, it is more of an attempt to straddle that elusive ground between the scholarly and t......more

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An intensive and extensive survey of the history of the Devil in Western thought, The Devil: A New Biography is geared more toward scholars and academics then the lay reader. It delves deep into the traditions surrounding the personification of evil from the earliest days to the eighteenth century.......more