The Devil and Daniel Webster [Hardcover]

Stephen Vincent Benet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1965

Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (January 1965)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 003028550X
• ISBN-13: 978-0030285509
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,217,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Benet story, February 28, 1998

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[e-mail] (Buffalo, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil & Daniel Webster (Library Binding)

Benet wrote this a while back, but it's worth reading, particularly in view of some of the shenangians going on in the Monica affair. Stone sold his soul and lived a long and fruitful life, the devil not bothering him at all due to the promised eventual payoff.

Came time for the payoff, Jabez Stone hired the F. Lee Bailey of the time, silver toungued orator Daniel Webster. The jury was picked by the Devil, no voir dire there. And Webster started his talk. It's good reading today if you can find it.

I have searched hard for a Complete Works of Benet, prose and poetry. His ouevre is not so great that it should be difficult to do. There are many other good stories in there, Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, By the Waters of Babylon, and poems, too, John Brown's Body of course, but How Hillbilly Jim Won The Georgia Fiddler's Contest, too, and a host of others. Benet is not an author to shove away on the back shelves and forget. He deserves to be read.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Benet story, February 28, 1998

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[e-mail] (Buffalo, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil & Daniel Webster (Library Binding)

Benet wrote this a while back, but it's worth reading, particularly in view of some of the shenangians going on in the Monica affair. Stone sold his soul and lived a long and fruitful life, the devil not bothering him at all due to the promised eventual payoff. </p> Came time for the payoff, Jabez Stone hired the F. Lee Bailey of the time, silver toungued orator Daniel Webster. The jury was picked by the Devil, no voir dire there. And Webster started his talk. It's good reading today if you can find it. </p> I have searched hard for a Complete Works of Benet, prose and poetry. His ouevre is not so great that it should be difficult to do. There are many other good stories in there, Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, By the Waters of Babylon, and poems, too, John Brown's Body of course, but How Hillbilly Jim Won The Georgia Fiddler's Contest, too, and a host of others. Benet is not an author to shove away on the back shelves and forget. He deserves to be read.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Devil and Daniel Webster, March 19, 2006

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This review is from: The Devil and Daniel Webster - Acting Edition (Paperback)

This book was not what I wanted or expected. I was looking for the short story. What I got was a play.
What I was looking for was a small booklet with just one or 2 short stories in it including "The Devil and Daniel Webster. I did not want a huge book as I was just going to use the one Benet story in my class. I returned all the copies I purchased and was satisified with the quick action taken. The next time I am looking for something I will check with Amazon again.