The High Place. James Branch Cabell
Ужасы и Мистика.
The High Place
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isbn 9781479407026
Автор произведения James Branch Cabell
Жанр Ужасы и Мистика
Издательство Ingram
"In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and is saved only when Satan and the angel Michael conspire…" – The Encyclopedia of Fantasy