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[6] It won the Booker Prize [7] The Los Angeles Times wrote, "For longtime admirers of the Amis of Lucky Jim and after, The Old Devils is welcomed evidence that the master remains masterful, able now to conjoin the mischievous with the mellow. As always, he is an insightful guide through the terrain where what is said is not meant and what is ...
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
The Broadway version was forced to close because Bancroft was injured and because of the 1966 New York City transit strike. [5] In 1967, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles presented The Devils as its inaugural production, [6] [failed verification] directed by Gordon Davidson and starring Frank Langella in the role of Grandier. [7]
The Devils is a 1971 historical psychological horror-drama film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. [3] A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed ...
Demons (pre-reform Russian: Бѣсы; post-reform Russian: Бесы, romanized: Bésy, IPA:; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–72.
Devils is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of devils or demons edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the eighth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in June 1987. The first ...
"The Devil" (Russian: Дьявол) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909, [ 1 ] but published only posthumously in 1911. [ 2 ] Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata , written around the same time, "The Devil" deals with the consequences of sexual emotion.
The Devils is a name for: The Devils, the 1960 play by John Whiting based on the book The Devils of Loudon (1952) by Aldous Huxley; The Devils, the 1971 Ken Russell film; The Devils, a 2000s pop music project of Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy; The New Jersey Devils, a National Hockey League team