Asmodeus at Large (Annotated)

Asmodeus at Large revives the old European figure of Asmodeus, the sharp-eyed demon made famous by Le Sage's Le Diable boiteux, and sends him into the modern world as a privileged spectator of human folly. Bulwer-Lytton uses this supernatural observer to expose drawing rooms, ambitions, vanities, and moral evasions with a mixture of wit, theatrical flourish, and essayistic satire. The work belongs...