The Devil And Daniel Webster (Paperback)

~ Stephen Vincent Benet (Author)

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Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (January 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822203030
• ISBN-13: 978-0822203032
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #262,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

This review is from: Devil and 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

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

This review is from: Devil and 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 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I think it was real, May 7, 2000

By	Michell (Texas, United states) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil and Daniel Webster (Audio Cassette)

Most of the poems i read are almost fake , stevens poems were real at heart he had alot of topics that made you think a little i think that alot of people can learn from his poetry.