THE DEVIL THAT FAILED

by Maurice Samuel

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First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Kafkaesque dark fantasy satire, half a thriller and half a parable, of the experiences of a modern Gulliver afflicted with delayed gigantism whose height increases to thirteen feet and who weighs some 2200 pounds. Maurice Samuel 1895-1972 was a Romanian-born journalist, translator and lecturer, educated in England. In 1914 he left England and became a

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