Devil and Daniel Webster. Ben S.

Stephen Vincent Bene is a classic of American literature, the flesh of the flesh of that brightest generation that Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner gave us. As a master of paradoxical and ironic novel, he undoubtedly inherits O. Henry, often uses historical, folklore and fantastic plots. The distant or recent past appears to his revitalized kingdom of fantasy. Here, the US Secretary of State can compete in court with the Devil himself for the soul of a farmer neighbor, a retired Major of French artillery-fantasize on the waters about the conquest of the world, calling the European celebrity-to conduct his tail, and the Irish stucco-to help build the railway...

The story “The Devil and Daniel Webster” repeatedly filmed: in 1941, the Oscar received the film by William Daterle, and the 2004 version became the directorial debut of Alek Baldwin.